| 左右 | zuǒ yòu | left and right; approximately; attendant; to control; to influence |
| 左 | zuǒ | left; the Left (politics); east; unorthodox; queer; wrong; differing; opposite; variant of 佐; surname Zuo |
| 左手 | zuǒ shǒu | left hand; left-hand side |
| 左边 | zuǒ bian | left; the left side; to the left of |
| 左派 | zuǒ pài | (political) left; left wing; leftist |
| 左面 | zuǒ miàn | left side |
| 左转 | zuǒ zhuǎn | to turn left |
| 左翼 | zuǒ yì | left-wing (political) |
| 左倾 | zuǒ qīng | left-leaning; progressive |
| 左右手 | zuǒ yòu shǒu | left and right hands; fig. collaboration |
| 左近 | zuǒ jìn | near by |
| 左上 | zuǒ shàng | upper left |
| 左下 | zuǒ xià | lower left |
| 左不过 | zuǒ bu guò | anyhow; in any event; just; only |
| 左丘明 | Zuǒ Qiū míng | Zuo Qiuming or Zuoqiu Ming (556-451), famous blind historian from Lu 鲁国 to whom the history Zuo Zhuan 左传 is attributed |
| 左侧 | zuǒ cè | left side |
| 左传 | Zuǒ zhuàn | Zuozhuan or Tsochuan, Mr Zuo's annals or Mr Zuo's commentary on 春秋, early history c. 400 BC attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明 |
| 左倾机会主义 | zuǒ qīng jī huì zhǔ yì | leftist opportunism (blamed for failures of Chinese communists from 1927); left adventurism; cf Mao's purges following 1935 Zunyi conference 遵义会议 |
| 左券 | zuǒ quàn | a sure thing; a certainty; copy of a contract held by a creditor |
| 左券在握 | zuǒ quàn zài wò | to be assured of success (idiom) |
| 左前卫 | zuǒ qián wèi | left forward (soccer position) |
| 左右两难 | zuǒ yòu liǎng nán | dilemma; quandary; Scylla and Charybdis; between the devil and the deep blue sea (idiom) |
| 左右勾拳 | zuǒ yòu gōu quán | left hook and right hook (boxing); the old one-two |
| 左右袒 | zuǒ yòu tǎn | to take sides with; to be partial to; to be biased; to favor one side |
| 左右逢源 | zuǒ yòu féng yuán | lit. to get water source from every side (idiom); slick operator who can derive benefit from any situation |
| 左字头 | zuǒ zì tóu | "top of 左 character" component in Chinese characters |
| 左岸 | Zuǒ àn | Left Bank (in Paris) |
| 左思 | Zuǒ Sī | Zuo Si (3rd century), Jin dynasty writer and poet |
| 左思右想 | zuǒ sī yòu xiǎng | to turn over in one's mind (idiom); to think through from different angles; to ponder |
| 左拉 | Zuǒ lā | Zola (name); Émile Zola (1840-1902), French naturalist novelist |
| 左撇子 | zuǒ piě zi | left-handed |
| 左支右绌 | zuǒ zhī yòu chù | to be in straitened circumstances |
| 左权 | Zuǒ quán | Zuoquan county in Jinzhong 晋中, Shanxi |
| 左权县 | Zuǒ quán xiàn | Zuoquan county in Jinzhong 晋中, Shanxi |
| 左氏春秋 | Zuǒ shì chūn qiū | Mr Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals, attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明; usually called Zuo Zhuan 左传 |
| 左营 | Zuǒ yíng | Zuoying or Tsoying district of Kaohsiung city 高雄市, south Taiwan |
| 左营区 | Zuǒ yíng qū | Zuoying or Tsoying district of Kaohsiung city 高雄市, south Taiwan |
| 左箭头 | zuǒ jiàn tóu | left-pointing arrow |
| 左箭头键 | zuǒ jiàn tóu jiàn | left arrow key (on keyboard) |
| 左至右 | zuǒ zhì yòu | left-to-right |
| 左舵 | zuǒ duò | left rudder |
| 左舷 | zuǒ xián | port (side of a ship) |
| 左袒 | zuǒ tǎn | to take sides with; to be partial to; to be biased; to favor one side |
| 左贡 | Zuǒ gòng | Zogang county, Tibetan: Mdzo sgang rdzong, in Chamdo prefecture 昌都地区, Tibet |
| 左贡县 | Zuǒ gòng xiàn | Zogang county, Tibetan: Mdzo sgang rdzong, in Chamdo prefecture 昌都地区, Tibet |
| 左轮手枪 | zuǒ lún shǒu qiāng | revolver |
| 左道惑众 | zuǒ dào huò zhòng | to delude the masses with heretical doctrines (idiom) |
| 左边儿 | zuǒ bianr | erhua variant of 左边 |
| 左邻右舍 | zuǒ lín yòu shè | neighbors; next-door neighbors; related work units; colleagues doing related work |
| 左邻右里 | zuǒ lín yòu lǐ | see 左邻右舍 |
