Illustration: Seen from behind a customer at a neighborhood bakery counter, an attendant faces the customer with two matching baskets of round rolls in front of her. The customer extends their left hand toward the basket on the left side of the view.

JLPT N3expressionLevel estimated by Bebop

向むかって左ひだり

mukatte hidari

to the viewer’s left

Example sentences

  1. 向むかって左ひだりを向むいて立たつ。

    The image stands facing to the observers' left.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 体勢たいせいは正面向しょうめんむきに近ちかく、わずかに向むかって左ひだりを向むいて立たつ。

    The image stands facing almost the front, slightly to the observers' left.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 「妙みょう」「法ほう」と、向むかって左ひだりから右みぎに書かいてあるところから、「妙みょう」が先さきにできたと思おもわれる。

    When facing these letters, 'Myo' is situated on the left-hand side of 'Ho' and hence it is considered that 'Myo' came into existence first.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 向左

  • 向face; tend towardOnコウKunむく・むい・むける
  • 左leftOnサ・シャKunひだり

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