左右 zuǒyòu in a sentence
About (approximately - left and right - attendants - control)
左右 (zuǒyòu) means About (approximately - left and right - attendants - control). Below are 4 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
From the graded readers
他们笑得很开心，看起来大概二十岁 左右 。
tāmen xiào dehěn kāixīn, kànqǐlái dàgài èrshí suì zuǒyòu.
They were laughing happily and looked about twenty.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
每天晚上十一点 左右 ，楼上都会有很大的声音。
měitiān wǎnshang shíyī diǎn zuǒyòu, lóushang dōu huì yǒu hěndà de / dì shēngyīn.
Every night at around eleven there was a loud noise from upstairs.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs
Questions about 左右
How is 左右 used in a sentence?
This page shows 4 sentences using 左右 (zuǒyòu, "About (approximately - left and right - attendants - control)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 左右 an HSK word?
Yes — 左右 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 左右?
The dictionary page for 左右 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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