Kanji1 / 15
横 kanji
sideways, side, horizontal, width, woof, unreasonable, perverse
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
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On readings
オウ
Kun readings
よこ
Variant forms
橫Words with 横
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3横断Popularcrossing (a road, river, etc.); cutting through (e.g. of a river through a town); cutting across; intersecting (e.g. a railway track); crossing (east-west); traversing; travelling across; flying across (e.g. the Pacific); sailing across; cutting horizontally; sectioning laterally
- —横行Popularbeing rampant; being widespread; being prevalent; walking sideways; staggering; striding
- —横線Popularhorizontal line
- —横着Popularlaziness; shirking; impudent; brazenly dishonest
- —横転Populartoppling sideways; turning sideways; falling over sideways; barrel roll
- —横柄Populararrogant; haughty; insolent
- —横暴Popularviolence; oppression; high-handedness; tyranny; despotism
- —横領Popularembezzlement; misappropriation; usurpation
- —専横Populararbitrariness; despotism; high-handedness; tyranny
- —縦横Popularlength 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
- —横断幕Popularhorizontal banner
- —横断歩道Popularpedestrian crossing; crosswalk
- —横溢overflowing; inundation
- —横臥lying on one's side
- —横議arguing persistently
- —横死violent (tragic or accidental) death; dog's death
- —横隊rank; line
- —横奪misappropriation; embezzlement
- —横文horizontal (Western) writing
- —横風arrogant; haughty