Character Details
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 左 | zuǒ | zaw:ah | 3 | 𠂇 (cover) + 工 (work) → left | 左 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Keeping the correct tools by one's side means there will be no work left at the end of the day. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - It’s fifteen minutes, more or less | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 8 - 工 | gōng | work | work | 工‑shaped frame | 工 红 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 𠂇 (cover) + 工 (work) → left | 工 (semantic origin) | 𠂇 (phonetic) | phonetic from 𠂇 | ||||||||