橫

See also 横

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 黃

Han character

橫 (radical 75 木+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 木廿一金 (DTMC), X木廿一金 (XDTMC), four-corner 4498₆)

1. across, horizontal, lateral
2. A surname.

References

• KangXi: page 555, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15594
• Dae Jaweon: page 944, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 2, page 1288, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6A6B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

橫 (simplified 横, Yale waang4, waang6)

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Japanese

Kanji

橫

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

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

橫 (hoành)