横

See also: 橫 and 構
横 U+6A2A, 横
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A2A
← 権
[U+6A29] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 樫 →
[U+6A2B]

Translingual
Stroke order
Japanese 横
Simplified 横
Traditional 橫

Glyph origin

Variant of 橫.

Han character

横 (radical 75, 木+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 木廿中金 (DTLC), composition ⿰木黄)

References
  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 551, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15484
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1273, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+6A2A

Chinese

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 横
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (黄) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
横
僙 *kʷaːŋ
廣 *kʷaːŋʔ
鄺 *kʷaːŋʔ, *qʰʷaːŋ
懬 *kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰaːŋʔ
爌 *kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰʷaːŋs, *qʰʷaːŋʔ
曠 *kʰʷaːŋs
矌 *kʰʷaːŋs
壙 *kʰʷaːŋs
纊 *kʰʷaːŋs
黃 *ɡʷaːŋ
璜 *ɡʷaːŋ
潢 *ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷaːŋs
簧 *ɡʷaːŋ
癀 *ɡʷaːŋ
鱑 *ɡʷaːŋ
獚 *ɡʷaːŋ
蟥 *ɡʷaːŋ
趪 *ɡʷaːŋ
櫎 *ɡʷaːŋʔ
擴 *ɡʷlaːŋs, *kʰʷaːɡ
瀇 *qʷaːŋʔ
獷 *kʷaŋʔ, *kʷraːŋʔ
觵 *kʷraːŋ
礦 *kʷraːŋʔ
鑛 *kʷraːŋʔ
穬 *kʷraːŋʔ
橫 *ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs, *kʷaːŋ
黌 *ɡʷraːŋ
鐄 *ɡʷraːŋ
嚝 *qʰʷraːŋ
彉 *kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ
彍 *kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 木 + phonetic 黄.

Definitions
For pronunciation and definitions of 横 – see 橫 (“middle rail of a wooden door; crosspiece; to lie crossways; to be situated crosswise; to be horizontal; etc.”).
(This character, 横, is the simplified and variant form of 橫.)
Notes:

Japanese

Shinjitai

 横

Kyūjitai

 橫

Kanji
横

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 橫)

  1. sideways, horizontal
  2. next, next to

Readings

Compounds
Compounds

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
横
よこ
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *yəkə. Cognate with Kunigami 横 (ゆく゚ー, yukuu), Miyako 横 (ゆく, yuku), Northern Amami-Oshima 横 (ゆく゚, yuxu), Okinawan 横 (ゆく, yuku), Yaeyama 横 (ゆく, yuku), Yonaguni 横 (どぅぐ, dugu).

Pronunciation

Noun

横 (hiragana よこ, rōmaji yoko)

  1. side
    ドアの横 (よこ)
    doa no yoko
    side of the doors
Antonyms

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
横
おう
Grade: 3
goon

From Middle Chinese 橫 (MC ɦˠwæŋ, “horizontal”) and 橫 (MC ɦˠwæŋH, “violent; unexpected”).

Pronunciation

Affix

横 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 橫, hiragana おう, rōmaji ō, historical hiragana わう)

  1. sideways, horizontal
  2. self-willed; arbitrary; unrestrained and aggressive
  3. sudden; unexpected
  4. brimming

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

横 • (hoeng) (hangeul 횡, revised hoeng, McCune–Reischauer hoeng, Yale hoyng)

  1. across
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