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
Radical: 木
Reading: きへん
Meaning: tree
Strokes: 4
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
横線 (オウセン) horizontal line
横行 (オウコウ) walking sideways, staggering, striding, being rampant, being widespread, being prevalent
専横 (センオウ) arbitrariness, despotism, high-handedness, tyranny
正横 (セイオウ) abeam
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
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
Radical: 木
Reading: きへん
Meaning: tree
Strokes: 4
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
横線 (オウセン) horizontal line
横行 (オウコウ) walking sideways, staggering, striding, being rampant, being widespread, being prevalent
専横 (センオウ) arbitrariness, despotism, high-handedness, tyranny
正横 (セイオウ) abeam
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