横

Stroke order

Variant of 橫／横.

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

• 㶇

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

Historical forms of the character 横
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts

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

(Third grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 橫)

1. sideways, horizontal
2. next, next to

• Go-on: おう (ō, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)
• Kun: よこ (yoko, 横, Jōyō)、よこたわる (yokotawaru, 横たわる)、よこたえる (yokotaeru, 横たえる)、おごる (ogoru)

• 横(よこ)縦(たて) (yokotate): breadth and length; woof and warp

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *yəkə. Cognate with Kunigami 横 (ゆく゚ー, yukū), Miyako 横 (ゆく, yuku), Northern Amami Ōshima 横 (ゆく゚, yuxu), Okinawan 横 (ゆく, yuku), Yaeyama 横 (ゆく, yuku), Yonaguni 横 (どぅぐ, dugu).

 縦と横 on Japanese Wikipedia

• (Tokyo) よこ (Heiban – )^[1]
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横(よこ) • (yoko) 

1. side

   ドアの横(よこ)

   doa no yoko

   side of the doors

   • 2022 August 4, “‘Sukima shūnō 45-sen’ 10cm, 20cm, 30cm dai no yokohaba to basho betsu no aidia [45 choices for ‘gap storage’, ideas for placement in 10cm, 20cm, or 30cm widths]”, in Room Clip‎:

     洗(せん)濯(たく)機(き)の横(よこ)の15㎝程(てい)度(ど)の隙(すき)間(ま)に、Salyu!のキャスター付(つ)き隙(すき)間(ま)収(しゅう)納(のう)を設置(せっち)したユーザーさん。

     Sentakuki no yoko no 15㎝ teido no sukima ni, Salyu! no kyasutā tsuki sukima shūnō o setchi shita yūzā-san.

     Beside the washing machine in a space about 15cm wide, a user created gap storage with a Salyu! caster rack.

2. horizontal dimension; width (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
   • 2007, Asakura Hitoshi, Hiden: Sansū ga dekiru ko ni naru [Secret recipe: Be able to do mathematics], page 11:

     円(えん)周(しゅう)の半(はん)分(ぶん)の長(なが)さは「直(ちょっ)径(けい) ×(かける) 3.14 ÷(わる) 2 」で、「直(ちょっ)径(けい) ÷(わる) 2 」は半(はん)径(けい)と同(おな)じですから、横(よこ)の長(なが)さは「半(はん)径(けい) ×(かける) 3.14 」ということになります。

     Enshū no hanbun no nagasa wa “chokkei kakeru 3 14 waru 2 ” de, “chokkei waru 2 ” wa hankei to onaji desu kara, yoko no nagasa wa “hankei kakeru 3 14 ” to iu koto ni narimasu.

     Half the circumference of a circle is ‘diameter x 3.14 ÷ 2’, and ‘diameter ÷ 2’ is the radius, so the length of the horizontal is ‘radius x 3.14’.

   • 2014, Masanobu Takahara, ? ni kotaeru! Shōgaku sansū [Answer to ?s! Elementary maths], page 331:

     まわりの長(なが)さが20cmの長(ちょう)方(ほう)形(けい)をかきます。（１）縦(たて)と横(よこ)の長(なが)さをまとめます。下(した)の表(ひょう)にあてはまる数(す)を書(か)きましょう。

     Mawari no nagasa ga 20cm no chōhōkei o kakimasu. (１) Tate to yoko no nagasa o matomemasu. Shita no hyō ni ate wa maru su o kakimashō.

     Draw a rectangle with a 20cm circumference. (1) Find the possible values for length and width. Write the numbers in the chart below.

   • 2022 April 7, “W, D, H tate yoko takasa no hyōki hōhō ‘zumen de tsukaeru’ [How to use W, D, H to express depth, width, and height in diagrams]”, in Rikei shikaku no kyōshitsu‎:

     ものの横(よこ)幅(はば)がW、縦(たて)（奥(おく)行(ゆ)き）がD、高(たか)さがHとなっています。ではなぜ横(よこ)、縦(たて)、高(たか)さの記(き)号(ごう)はW・D・Hで記(き)載(さい)されるのか、以(い)下(か)で解(かい)説(せつ)します。

     Mono no yokohaba ga W, tate (okuyuki) ga D, takasa ga H to natteimasu. De wa naze yoko, tate, takasa no kigō wa W D H de kisai sareru no ka, ika de kaisetsu shimasu.

     W indicates horizontal width, D length (from front to back), and H height of items. Below we explain how to use W, D, and H to indicate width, depth, and height.

• 縦(たて) (tate)

From Middle Chinese 橫 (MC hwaeng, “horizontal”) and 橫 (MC hwaengH, “violent; unexpected”).

• IPA^(key):

横(おう) • (ō) ^{←わう (wau)?}

1. sideways, horizontal
2. self-willed; arbitrary; unrestrained and aggressive
3. sudden; unexpected
4. brimming

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

1. across