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The Kanji Map

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Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N3

480 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 15

Meaning: sideways, side, horizontal, width, woof, unreasonable, perverse

Kunyomi: よこ

Onyomi: オウ

Composition: 木 黄

横

Radical

Radical: 木

Reading: きへん

Meaning: tree

Strokes: 4

Reading: きへん

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Examples

Examples with audio

横断歩道(おうだんほどう)   pedestrian crossing

横着な(おうちゃくな)   lazy

横(よこ)   beside, side

横浜(よこはま)   Yokohama

横綱(よこづな)   sumo grand champion

横書き(よこがき)   writing horizontally

横取りする(よこどりする)   snatch

Onyomi Examples

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

Kunyomi Examples

横 (よこ) horizontal (as opposed to vertical), 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

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