| | left / the left side / to the left of | HSK 1 |
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| | left / the Left (politics) / east / unorthodox / queer / wrong / differing / opposite / variant of 佐 | HSK 1 |
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| | left and right / nearby / approximately / attendant / to control / to influence | HSK 3 |
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| | to remain; to be left over | HSK 5 |
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| | to remain / to be left / to have as remainder | HSK 5 |
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| | to remain; to be left over / residual; remnant / residue | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to throw / to cast / left-slanting downward brush stroke (calligraphy) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | glancing to left and right (idiom); to look all around | HSK 7-9 |
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| | grain stalks left after threshing | |
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| | lit. to strike water right and left (idiom) / fig. to turn everything into gold / to have everything going one's way / to benefit from both sides | |
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| | left hand; left-hand side | |
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| | left-leaning / progressive | |
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| | Wang Ching-wei (1883-1944), left-wing Guomingdang politician, subsequently Japanese collaborator | |
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| | jade tablet used in ceremonies, shaped like the left or right half of a "gui" 圭, also given to male infants to play with | |
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| | work or plans left as a legacy / the views of the departed / posthumous orders or teachings | |
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| | Spring Festival couplet (the first line of which is pasted on the right side of a doorway at New Year, and the second on the left side) | |
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| | (in former times) upper, middle and lower army / army of right, center and left / (in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force | |
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| | energy left over (to do sth else) | |
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| | to withdraw (money) / to collect (left luggage) / to extract / to refine | |
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| | Tumed left banner, Mongolian Tümed züün khoshuu, in Hohhot 呼和浩特, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | to swagger off / to walk off (or drive off etc) without a second thought for those left behind | |
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| | left side | |
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| | left-hand side | |
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| | left-wing (political) | |
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| | almost exhausted; nearly depleted; practically nothing left | |
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| | anapodoton (a saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented in the first part) | |
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| | to be on one's own; to be left alone / to be left out | |
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| | to turn left | |
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| | scrap / bits and pieces left over | |
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| | to turn left (Shanghainese) | |
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| | New Barag left banner in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾｜呼伦贝尔, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | left-hander | |
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| | left to return to unchecked growth / overgrown / grown wild | |
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| | dumbstruck and unable to reply (idiom) / left speechless; at a loss for words | |
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| | to be left speechless / unable to respond | |
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| | there is not much left | |
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| | no one to rely on (idiom); on one's own / orphaned / left to one's own devices | |
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| | no strategy left to try (idiom); at one's wit's end / at the end of one's tether / powerless | |
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| | teeth marks (left on sth) / bite marks | |
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| | same as 斑竹, mottled bamboo, since according to legend the spots on mottled bamboo are marks left by the tears shed by two of King Shun's 舜 concubines (Ehuang 娥皇 and Nüying 女英, known as the Concubines of the Xiang 湘妃) upon learning of his death | |
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| | expert / left-hand side (of a machine) / left-hand side (driver's side) of a vehicle | |
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| | to pick on sth incessantly (idiom) / to criticize right and left | |
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| | (typesetting) to not indent / to set the text flush with the left (or top) margin | |
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| | out of ammunition and no food left (idiom); in desperate straits | |
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| | Alxa Left Banner, Mongolian Alshaa Züün khoshuu, in Alxa League 阿拉善盟, Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 1969-1979) | |
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| | the left is for males, the right is for females (traditional saying) | |
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| | vanished from the face of the earth / all gone / nothing left | |
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| | (political) left / left wing / leftist | |
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| | lit. when the nest is upset no egg is left intact (idiom) / fig. when one falls in disgrace the whole family is doomed | |
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| | lit. widowers, widows, orphans and the childless / fig. people with no one left to rely on | |
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| | adventurism (a left-wing error against Mao's line during the 1930s) | |
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| | Bairin Left banner of Baarin Züün khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | Sonid Left banner in Xilingol League 錫林郭勒盟｜锡林郭勒盟, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | arhat (Sanskrit) / a holy man who has left behind all earthly desires and concerns and attained nirvana (Buddhism) | |
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| | left and right hands / (fig.) capable assistant / right-hand man | |
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| | left rudder | |
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| | Horqin Left Middle banner or Khorchin Züün Garyn Dund khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼｜通辽, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60) / see also 彳亍 | |
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| | orphaned of all one's immediate relatives (idiom); no one to rely on / left to one's own devices | |
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| | Horqin Left Rear banner or Khorchin Züün Garyn Xoit khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼｜通辽, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | unwilling to remain lonely or idle / unwilling to be left out | |
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| | lit. not even the chickens and dogs are left undisturbed (idiom) / fig. great commotion / pandemonium | |
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| | to bare one's left arm and take off one's cap as an expression of sorrow | |
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| | lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom) / fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal / to keep going while some hope is left | |
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| | Bo Gu (1907-1946), Soviet-trained Chinese Communist, journalist and propagandist, 1930s Left adventurist, subsequently rehabilitated, killed in air crash | |
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| | Harqin Left Mongol autonomous county in Chaoyang 朝陽｜朝阳, Liaoning | |
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| | (literary) to cut off the left ear of a slain enemy / the severed ear of a slain enemy | |
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| | the mission in life of a deceased person, left to others to carry on | |
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| | left side | |
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| | the left-radical form of Kangxi radical 145, 衣 | |
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| | the League of the Left-Wing Writers, an organization of writers formed in China in 1930 / abbr. for 中國左翼作家聯盟｜中国左翼作家联盟 | |
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| | detailed and nothing left out (idiom); meticulous and comprehensive / not missing an iota | |
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| | mixed dish of the food left over from a banquet | |
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| | (of a shoe) designed to be worn on a specific foot – either the left or the right | |
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| | upper left | |
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| | harvested land left for rotation / an opportunity | |
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| | Left Bank (in Paris) | |
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| | to go to Taiwan / refers to those who left China for Taiwan before the founding of PRC in 1949 | |
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| | lower left | |
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| | Wang Ming (1904-1974), Soviet-trained Chinese communist, Comintern and Soviet stooge and left adventurist in the 1930s, fell out with Mao and moved to Soviet Union from 1956 | |
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| | to have money left / remaining money | |
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| | crop failure / property left with no-one to inherit / sterilization | |
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| | left-to-right | |
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| | Harqin (Mongol: guard) / Harqin banner or Kharchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia / also Harqin Left Mongol autonomous county in Chaoyang 朝陽｜朝阳, Liaoning | |
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| | "left-behind children", rural children whose parents have to make a living as migrant workers in distant urban areas, but cannot afford to keep the family with them | |
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| | (eyes) to scan / to glance left and right / to scrutinize / also written 巡睃 | |
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| | the League of the Left-Wing Writers, an organization of writers formed in China in 1930 | |
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| | ommatidium (single component of insect's compound eye) / one eye (i.e. one's left or right eye) | |
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| | Zhou Libo (1908-1979), left-wing journalist, translator and novelist / Zhou Libo (1967-), Chinese stand-up comedian | |
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| | left-pointing arrow | |
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| | a left-and-right pair of shoes (distinguished from 直腳鞋｜直脚鞋, shoes that can be worn on either foot) | |
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| | leaving none left / (sold etc) out | |
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| | left speechless by sth perfect (idiom) | |
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| | (of a person) left unattended / not cared for | |
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| | those who left China for Taiwan before the founding of PRC in 1949 | |
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| | to turn left | |
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| | to turn left (Shanghainese) | |
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| | the charm lies in what is left unsaid (idiom) | |
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| | warehouse / temporary store / left-luggage office / cloak-room | |
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| | (of one's political views) to prefer left rather than right (idiom during the Cultural Revolution) | |
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