漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
横: sideways, side
Also: horizontal, width, woof, unreasonable, perverse
JLPT N315 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
木 carries the meaning · 黄 gives the sound
15 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
オウou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 横断歩道おうだんほどうpedestrian crossing
- 横着なおうちゃくなlazy
よこyoko · kun'yomi · on its own
- 横よこbeside, side
- 横浜よこはまYokohama
- 横綱よこづなsumo grand champion
- 横書きよこがきwriting horizontally
- 横取りするよこどりするsnatch
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)木 wood (meaning) + 黃 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 橫 (rev. 93448390), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stand before a great, ancient tree and see 木! The vertical line is the sturdy trunk, the top strokes are branches reaching for the sunlight, and the bottom strokes are the roots gripping the earth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 橫 · héng
Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 横. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 橫.
- Simplified
- 横 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 橫 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin héng 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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