左倾 (zuǒqīng): left-leaning

Meanings

1 left-leaning
2 leftist
3 (in CCP usage) ultra-left / adventurist (often pejorative)

Characters

左

Examples

他的政治立场比较左倾。

Tā de zhèngzhì lìchǎng bǐjiào zuǒqīng.

His political stance leans to the left.

党在历史上犯过左倾错误。

Dǎng zài lìshǐ shàng fàn guò zuǒqīng cuòwù.

The Party has made 'leftist' errors in its history.

Tips

history

In CCP political vocabulary, 左倾 has a specific pejorative meaning: 'ultra-leftist / adventurist' deviation, as in 左倾错误 (the leftist mistakes of the early 1930s and the Cultural Revolution). The mirror term 右倾 (rightist) is equally pejorative. Outside CCP discourse, 左倾 means simply 'left-leaning' in the Western political sense.