Jisho

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15 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
sideways, side, horizontal, width, woof, unreasonable, perverse
Kun:
よこ
On:
オウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
480 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 横線 【オウセン】 horizontal line
  • 横行 【オウコウ】 being rampant, being widespread, being prevalent, walking sideways, staggering, striding
  • 縦横 【ジュウオウ】 length and width, length and breadth, lengthwise and crosswise, vertical and horizontal, the four cardinal points, every direction, all directions, as one wishes, as one pleases, at will
  • 専横 【センオウ】 arbitrariness, despotism, high-handedness, tyranny

Kun reading compounds

  • 横 【よこ】 horizontal (as opposed to vertical), lying down, side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back), width, breadth, side (of a box, etc.), beside, aside, next to, unconnected
  • 邪 【よこしま】 wicked, evil, wrong, bad
  • 真横 【まよこ】 (right at the) side, just beside
  • 縦中横 【たてちゅうよこ】 using horizontal characters in vertical writing

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
heng2, heng4
Korean:
hoeng

Spanish

  • lateral
  • lado
  • horizontal
  • egoísta
  • incorrecto
  • costado

Portuguese

  • De lado
  • lado
  • horizontal
  • largura
  • trama (tecidos)

French

  • latéral
  • côté
  • horizontal
  • largeur
  • trame (tissu)
355 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
255 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
235 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
297 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2361 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
470 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
644 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2301 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
781 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
795 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
34 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1111 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1350 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
733 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
979 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1767 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
15484P Morohashi
1066 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2854 New Nelson (John Haig)
1751 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1888 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
432 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1861 2001 Kanji
4a11.13 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-11 SKIP code
4498.6 Four corner code
1-18-03 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6a2a Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
spear, lance, javelin
Kun:
やり
On:
ソウショウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2261 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 槍騎兵 【ソウキヘイ】 lancer
  • 槍術 【ソウジュツ】 spearmanship
  • 聖槍 【セイソウ】 holy lance, sacred spear
  • 弓馬刀槍 【キュウバトウソウ】 archery, horsemanship, spearsmanship, and swordsmanship, martial arts in general

Kun reading compounds

  • 槍 【やり】 spear, lance, javelin, lance, jeering
  • 槍烏賊 【やりいか】 spear squid (Loligo bleekeri)
  • 長槍 【ながやり】 long spear, pike
  • 毛槍 【けやり】 keyari, long, feathered ornamental spear carried at the head of a daimyo's procession

Readings

Japanese names:
うつ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qiang1
Korean:
chang, jaeng

Spanish

  • lanza
  • lanceta
  • arpón
  • jabalina

Portuguese

French

2342 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2100 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1329 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
966 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
15319 Morohashi
2822 New Nelson (John Haig)
2516 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2576 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a10.20 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-10 SKIP code
4896.7 Four corner code
1-33-68 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
69cd Unicode hex code