The Chinese Radical: 左


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Meaning
left    左

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 2
left, unorthodox
zuǒ
Left: hand /, right: build, work (image of a carpenter's square)
The hand that assists, (=supports with the carpenter's square) is the left.
JLPT HSK 6
laziness, lazy
duò
Left: feeling , right: left , body /
(When you are a right-handed person:) I feel that my left body (= left half of the body) is lazy.
JLPT no HSK
marrow (spinal or plant's stem), essence, pith
suǐ
Left: sceleton , right: 遀 (movement , part of lazy [I feel , that the left [half] of my body is lazy])
The sceleton has during movement sth. lazy: The marrow.
JLPT no HSK
to assist, assistant, aide, to accompany
zuǒ
Left: person /, right: left (The hand that supports when building )
The person at left assists.

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