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, composition ⿰木黃)

1. across, horizontal, lateral (horizontal character stroke)
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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Chinese

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trad.		橫
simp.		横

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): héng, Héng (heng², Heng²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄥˊ, ㄏㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waang⁴, waang⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): vang
• Min Nan (POJ): hôaiⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: héng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: hêng²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hengr
    • IPA ^(key): /xɤŋ³⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: Héng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: hêng²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Hengr
    • IPA ^(key): /xɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: waang⁴, waang⁶
    • Yale: wàahng, waahng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waang⁴, waang⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /wɑːŋ²¹ wɑːŋ²²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vang
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /vaŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hôaiⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: huâinn
    • IPA (Taipei): /huaĩ²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huaĩ¹³/

Old Chinese pronunciation (橫, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
橫								héng								‹ hwæng ›								/*C.ɡʷˤraŋ/								crosswise; horizontal
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
橫					5399					黄					陽					0					橫					/*ɡʷraːŋ/
橫					5402					黄					陽					0					蝗					/*ɡʷraːŋs/

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Japanese

Kanji

橫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 横)

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

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Middle Chinese

Han character

橫 (*huæng, guɑ̀ng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

橫 (hoành)

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