The part under the radical looks like if you were to put your left hand up and make an “L” with it which indicates left. Also, you can remember that the top of the character is like an upside-down “L” for left.
Abby Clark
4 years ago
This character means “left” because it looks like an object is to the left of a person
Saffi Ullah
2 years ago
Looks very similar to 在, just differs by two lines. Looks like this 工作的工 beside this roof/overhang like like structure.
Dinobi Ibegbu
1 year ago
I am able to rember the pronounciation because the 工 in the character reminds me of 工作, which has a second part that sounds like character.
Dinobi Ibegbu
1 year ago
The 工 reminds me of 工作, of which its second part sounds similar to the sound of the character meaning LEFT.
Dennis
1 year ago
The 工 resembles 工作, which is usually associated with the political left.
Crystal Lin
1 year ago
the pinyin for 左 is zuo which reminds of the character 做 and inside of the character it looks like the character 工 so i thought about it as your left hand is used to 做工。
Aspen Saechao
1 year ago
I remember that zuo is left because there’s a Beyonce’s song Irreplaceable starts with “to the left to the left”. So I just remember Beyonzuo and its left.
Guilbert Thibault
1 year ago
右 looks like Yo, and the工 in 左 looks like “Z”. With this technique, it’s easy to differentiate Right and Left!
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Maryan
10 months ago
Imagine a person standing with their left hand raised high (the horizontal stroke on top of 左), indicating that it’s the left side.
Mishka
10 months ago
i remember the character name zuo by remembering that the capital I shape in the character is the same as from (gongzuo)工作 （work）and this character is thus pronounced ZUO.
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Annabelle Mecca
10 months ago
The 工 radical looks like a L to me, which is the first letter of “F”.
The part under the radical looks like if you were to put your left hand up and make an “L” with it which indicates left. Also, you can remember that the top of the character is like an upside-down “L” for left.
This character means “left” because it looks like an object is to the left of a person
Looks very similar to 在, just differs by two lines. Looks like this 工作的工 beside this roof/overhang like like structure.
I am able to rember the pronounciation because the 工 in the character reminds me of 工作, which has a second part that sounds like character.
The 工 reminds me of 工作, of which its second part sounds similar to the sound of the character meaning LEFT.
The 工 resembles 工作, which is usually associated with the political left.
the pinyin for 左 is zuo which reminds of the character 做 and inside of the character it looks like the character 工 so i thought about it as your left hand is used to 做工。
I remember that zuo is left because there’s a Beyonce’s song Irreplaceable starts with “to the left to the left”. So I just remember Beyonzuo and its left.
右 looks like Yo, and the工 in 左 looks like “Z”. With this technique, it’s easy to differentiate Right and Left!
Imagine a person standing with their left hand raised high (the horizontal stroke on top of 左), indicating that it’s the left side.
i remember the character name zuo by remembering that the capital I shape in the character is the same as from (gongzuo)工作 （work）and this character is thus pronounced ZUO.
The 工 radical looks like a L to me, which is the first letter of “F”.
*The first letter of “left”