Kanji
Readingひだり
Frequency42%
Used in (71 in total)
left; left hand side
left hand; left-hand side; left-hand direction; (on) the left
left arm; left-handed (baseball pitcher)
left side; left-hand side
left foot; left leg
left shoulder
right and left
left breast; left side of the chest
neighbour to the left (person, building, etc.)
left end; left edge
to turn left; to turn to the left
left-handedness; left-handed person; left-hander; fondness for alcohol; person who is fond of alcohol; drinker
from right to left; in one ear and out the other; nice and quick; with speed and address; without further ado
left half of the body
to turn to the left
being unfamiliar with a locality; not knowing one's way around; (lit.) not knowing one's right hand from the left; being clueless
wearing a kimono with the right side over the left (normally used only for the dead); going badly (one's business, one's fortune, the economy); being in a bad financial situation; front left; front and left
left back (corner, etc.); on the left and at the rear; left-hand side and at the back
counterclockwise rotation; anti-clockwise rotation; CCW
rear left; back left; left and behind
on the left as one faces (it)
left hook (e.g. in boxing, etc.)
left of center (politically); left-leaning; tending to the left
left hand drive (of cars, etc.)
left-hand corner; lower left
ease and comfort
hitting left-handed (with a racket, bat, etc.); hitting to left (field)
counterclockwise; anti-clockwise; eccentric; abnormal
(Fleming's) left-hand rule
to go downhill (e.g. for one's business); to be badly off (economically)
left skirt of a kimono; geisha (because they often walked holding the left hem of their kimono)
driving on the left side of the road; driving on the left-hand side of the road; left-hand side driving
left-handed batter
lower left (corner)
left-handed batter
left-handed pitching
same as on the left; (in vertical writing) same as below
drinker; person who is fond of alcohol; left-wing party
always contradicting what other people say
upper left (corner)
writing from left to right (esp. horizontally)
hold in which both wrestlers obtain an underarm grip with the left hand and an over-arm grip with the right
left-handed outside grip (on one's opponent's belt)
left shift (bitwise, arithmetic)
left justification; aligning to the left
in calligraphy, a stroke going from upper right to lower left with a pointed tail
left puppeteer (bunraku); manipulates the left arm
opening (square) bracket
left-handed coordinate system
the reason(s) is (are) as follows
writing horizontally from left to right
left-aligned; left-justified
the reason(s) is (are) as follows
sinistral fault; left-lateral fault
left-side mouse button
left-facing swastika; counterclockwise swastika
left-justification
to become a geisha; to work as a geisha