The Japanese Radical: 左


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Meaning
left    左

Explanation left hand side

Used in these characters:
左
JLPT 5Joyo 1
 left
hidari, SA
 工 左
Left: Hand ナ/ヨ (Shows a hand with the forearm at the right and three fingers to the left.), right: to build, work 工 (= image of a carpenter's square)
The hand that assists, (=supports with the carpenter's square) is the left.  
佐
JLPT 1Joyo 7
 assist, help
SA
 亻 左 工
Left: person 人, right: left 左 (The hand that assists, (= supports with the carpenter's square 工) is the left.)
(Normally persons are right-handed and the left 左 hand is supporting.) Persons have the left (hand) for assisting.  
惰
JLPT 1Joyo 7
 lazy, idle, indolent
DA
 忄 左 肉
Left: feeling 忄, right: left 左, body 月/肉
(When you are a right-handed person:) I feel that my left body (= left body's half) is lazy.  

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