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

13 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
slippery, slide, slip, fail exam
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1238 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 滑落 【カツラク】 sliding down (a slope, mountainside), slipping down
  • 滑液 【カツエキ】 synovial fluid
  • 平滑 【ヘイカツ】 smooth, even, level, flat
  • 粘滑 【ネンカツ】 mucilaginous, demulcent

Kun reading compounds

  • 滑る 【すべる】 to glide, to slide (e.g. on skis), to slip, to fail (an examination), to bomb (when telling a joke), to drop, to go down, to come down, to fall (e.g. in status)
  • 滑らか 【なめらか】 smooth (of a surface), glassy, velvety, soft, smooth (of an action, proceedings, etc.), fluent (speech), fluid, trouble-free, continuously differentiable

Readings

Japanese names:
かり、 なめり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hua2, gu3
Korean:
hwal, gol

Spanish

  • deslizar
  • resbalar
  • deslizarse
  • resbalarse
  • suavidad

Portuguese

  • Escorregadio
  • deslizar
  • escorregar
  • falhar

French

  • glisser
  • glissant
  • rater
1088 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1468 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2663 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1512 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1490 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1857 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1267 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1341 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1392 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1229 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
809 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
472 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
603 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1298 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18032 Morohashi
658 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3282 New Nelson (John Haig)
1289 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1384 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1638 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
346 2001 Kanji
3a10.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-10 SKIP code
3712.7 Four corner code
1-19-74 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6ed1 Unicode hex code