横

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See also: 橫 and 構
横 U+6A2A, 横
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A2A
← 権
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 樫 →

Translingual

Stroke order
15 strokes
Japanese 横
Simplified 横
Traditional 橫

Glyph origin

Variant of 橫／横.

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

  • 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

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

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

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 横 – see 橫 (“middle rail of a wooden door; crosspiece; to lie crossways; to be situated crosswise; to be horizontal; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified and variant form of 橫).
Notes:

Japanese

Shinjitai

横

Kyūjitai

橫

Kanji

横

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 橫)

  1. sideways, horizontal
  2. next, next to
  3. width (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
横
よこ
Grade: 3
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
橫 (kyūjitai)

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

Pronunciation

Noun

横(よこ) • (yoko) 

  1. side
    ドアの横(よこ)
    doa no yoko
    side of the doors
  2. width (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
Antonyms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
横
おう
Grade: 3
goon
Alternative spelling
橫 (kyūjitai)

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

Pronunciation

Affix

横(おう) • (ō) ←わう (wau)?

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

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. across
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