漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
佐: assistant, help
JLPT N17 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 左 gives the sound
7 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
サsa · on'yomi · in compounds
- 補佐ほさaid; help; assistance
- 大佐たいさcolonel; (navy) captain
- 少佐しょうさmajor; lieutenant commander; wing commander
- 中佐ちゅうさlieutenant colonel; commander (navy)
- 三佐さんさmajor (JGSDF)
- 二佐にさlieutenant colonel (JGSDF)
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人 person, as 亻 (meaning) + 左 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 佐 (rev. 93875381), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zuǒ
Same form: 佐 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 佐 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 佐 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zuǒ most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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