橫 — readings, stroke count and radical

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. 日本の忍者が使ったとされる「忍びいろは」の「ヨ」。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「木」+音符「黃」。「よこぎ」「かんぬき」を意味する漢語{橫}を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

across, horizontal, lateral

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • オウ
  • コウ
Kun (native)
  • よこ
  • よこたわる
  • よこたえる
Other languages
  • 拼音heng2

Basics

Strokes
16 strokes
Radical
木(き)
JIS level
Level 3
Unicode
U+6A6B

Similar-looking kanji

Selected automatically by comparing composition (IDS). “Same composition” means the parts and their arrangement match.

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-4-12
Nelson
2361