Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 1

JLPT level: N5

630 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 5

Meaning: left

Kunyomi: ひだり

Onyomi: シャ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: たくみ

Meaning: work

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

右する(さゆうする)   influence, control, command

派(さは)   (political) left wing

(ひだり)   left

側(ひだりがわ)   left side

向き(ひだりむき)   left facing

Onyomi Examples

left (esp. in vertical Japanese writing), the following

サユウ left and right, right and left, (asserting) control, influence, domination, one's attendants, people accompanying one, (serving at someone's) side, equivocation

キョクサ extreme left, ultraleft

サイサ left-most

サカン plasterer

Kunyomi Examples

ひだり left, left hand side

さわん left arm, left-handed (baseball pitcher)

向かって むかってひだり on the left as one faces (it)

どうひだり same as on the left, (in vertical writing) same as below