Kanji

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:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: きへん

Meaning: tree

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

断歩道(おうだんほどう)   pedestrian crossing

着な(おうちゃくな)   lazy

(よこ)   beside, side

浜(よこはま)   Yokohama

綱(よこづな)   sumo grand champion

書き(よこがき)   writing horizontally

取りする(よこどりする)   snatch

Onyomi Examples

オウセン horizontal line

オウコウ walking sideways, staggering, striding, being rampant, being widespread, being prevalent

センオウ arbitrariness, despotism, high-handedness, tyranny

セイオウ abeam

Kunyomi Examples

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

よこしま wicked, evil, wrong, bad

まよこ (right at the) side, just beside

縦中 たてちゅうよこ using horizontal characters in vertical writing