Kanji Study

Bushu (Radical) Info: 木 (き) – tree

Henshall Mnemonic: yellow piece of wood laid on its side

Levels: JLPT N3 | JLPT 2 (old) | Grade 3
Frequency: #480 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:

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JLPT N5 Words

• 横   [よこ]
  (n) beside; side; width   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N3 Words

• 横切る   [よこぎる]
  (v5r) to cross (e.g. arms); to traverse   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 横断   [おうだん]
  (n,vs) crossing   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N1 Words

• 横綱   [よこづな]
  (n) sumo grand champion   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT

• 横行   [おうこう]
  (n) walking sideways; staggering; striding   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 横取り   [よこどり]
  (n) usurpation; snatching; seizure   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 横手   [よこて]
  (n) (1) side; beside; (2) feature of a sword blade   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 横書き   [よこがき]
  (n) writing horizontally   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 横線   [おうせん]
  (n) horizontal line; abscissa   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 横断歩道   [おうだんほどう]
  pedestrian crossing   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 横断幕   [おうだんまく]
  (n) banner strung across a street   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 横着   [おうちゃく]
  (adj-na,n) dishonesty; laziness; cunning   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 横転   [おうてん]
  (n,vs) turning sideways; barrel roll   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 横道   [よこみち]
  (n) side street   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 横幅   [よこはば]
  (n) breadth; width   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 横文字   [よこもじ]
  (n) European writing; cross-wise writing   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 横柄   [おうへい]
  (adj-na,n) arrogance; haughtiness; insolence   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 横暴   [おうぼう]
  (adj-na,n) violence; oppression; high-handedness; tyranny; despotism   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 専横   [せんおう]
  (adj-na,n) arbitrariness; despotism; tyranny   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 横目   [よこめ]
  (n) side glance   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 横領   [おうりょう]
  (n) usurpation; embezzlement; misappropriation   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 縦横   [じゅうおう]
  (n) length and width; every direction; warp and woof; right and left; vertically and horizontally; length and breadth   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 縦横   [たてよこ]
  (n) length and width; every direction; warp and woof; right and left; vertically and horizontally; length and breadth   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 横たわる   [よこたわる]
  (v5r) to lie down; to stretch out   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 横ばい   [よこばい]
  (n,vs) sidewise crawl (e.g. of a crab); crawling sideways   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 横顔   [よこがお]
  (n) face in profile; profile; face seen from the side   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Find more details for 横 at jisho.org, Yookoso! or WWWJDIC

Acknowledgments

The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.

NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.

The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.

Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.

The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.

If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.