横

See also 橫, and 構

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 木 + phonetic 黄.

Han character

横 (radical 75 木+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 木廿中金 (DTLC), composition ⿰木黄)

1. across, horizontal, lateral
2. A surname

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 551, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15484
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1273, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6A2A

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Japanese

Kanji

横 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: おう (ō), こう (kō)
• Kun: よこ (yoko), よこたわる (yokotawaru), よこたえる (yokotaeru)

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Korean

Hanja

横 (hangeul 횡, revised hoeng, McCune-Reischauer hoeng, Yale hoyng)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

横 (traditional 橫, pinyin héng (heng2), Héng (Heng2), Wade-Giles heng², Heng²)