surname Zuo

= 𠂇 + : Mnemonic symbol: a communist.

Zapatista Zebra (zu) and the communist (左) teamed up for once to sabotage capitalism. They start by trying to cut a steel beam (工) using scissors (𠂇) inside of the observatory (o3).
left / the Left (politics) / east / unorthodox / queer / wrong / differing / opposite / variant of 佐[zuo3]

= 𠂇 + : Mnemonic symbol: a communist.

Zapatista Zebra (zu) and the communist (左) teamed up for once to sabotage capitalism. They start by trying to cut a steel beam (工) using scissors (𠂇) inside of the observatory (o3).

左 character breakdown

work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a steel beam, since 工 looks like the cross section of a steel beam. In front of the engine ((e)ng1), Gitta Giraffe (gu) is doing some hard work: She's stacking a capacitor (二) on a dinosaur bone (丨) on a capacitor (二). She's not very successful, but then she gets the idea to use steel beams (工) as support.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

𠂇 = 丿 + : 𠂇 looks like a pair of scissors. Imagine a pair of scissors (𠂇) cutting open a banana (丿) to find a flute (一) inside.

Characters with 左 as component

to assist / assistant / aide / to accompany

= + : Rosa Luxemburg (亻), the communist (左) and Zapatista Zebra (zu) are making a pact in the observatory (o3) to assist (佐) each other to achieve world wide communism.
lazy

= + + : Doggy Dog (du) is very lazy (惰) and slacking off sleeping on the moon (月) in the observatory's bathroom (o4), but in the end the communist (左) finds him and punishes him with a flail (忄) for being so lazy (惰).
Cantonese particle equivalent to 了[le5] or 過|过[guo4]

Words with 左

to remain neutral in a quarrel (idiom)
the League of the Left-Wing Writers, an organization of writers formed in China in 1930
Harqin Left Mongol autonomous county in Chaoyang 朝陽|朝阳[Chao2 yang2], Liaoning
Tumed left banner, Mongolian Tümed züün khoshuu, in Hohhot 呼和浩特[Hu1 he2 hao4 te4], Inner Mongolia
(of one's political views) to prefer left rather than right (idiom during the Cultural Revolution)
Chongzuo prefecture-level city in Guangxi
Chongzuo prefecture-level city in Guangxi
anyhow / in any event / just / only

Sentences with 左

左 currently does not appear in any sentence.