左右

HSK 4#1351 by frequencyradical 工

zuǒ yòu["m","f","v"]

left and right; approximately; nearby; attendant; to control; to influence

Examples

他左右看了看。

He looked left and right.

萨米十六岁左右。

Sami was about sixteen years old.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.