Jisho

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横

15 strokes
Radical:
tree 木
Parts:
｜ 二 ハ 廾 日 木 田 黄
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

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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

串

7 strokes
Radical:
line 丨
Parts:
｜ 口
spit, skewer
Kun:
くし、 つらぬ.く
On:
カン、 ケン、 セン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2139 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Kun reading compounds

  • 串 【くし】 spit, skewer, proxy (computer server)
  • 串揚げ 【くしあげ】 kushiage, deep-fried skewered meat and vegetables
  • 牛串 【ぎゅうくし】 skewered beef
  • 魚串 【うおぐし】 fish skewer, skewered fish

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chuan4
Korean:
gwan, cheon

Spanish

  • broqueta
  • espetón

Portuguese

French

  • brochette
  • broche
104 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
516 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1394 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
4364 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2973 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
610 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
80 Morohashi
30 New Nelson (John Haig)
603 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
649 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
0a7.13 The Kanji Dictionary
4-7-3 SKIP code
5000.6 Four corner code
1-22-90 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e32 Unicode hex code