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Kanji Detail for 橫 - "horizontal, across, broad"
橫
- Meaning
橫 means "horizontal, across, broad."
Horizontal - Running sideways; east to west direction.
Sideways - Moving or lying crosswise; lateral.
Across - From side to side; traversing.
Arbitrary - Acting on impulse; willful and unreasonable.
Unexpected - Happening by chance; surprising.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
across; horizontal; lateral
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
across, horizontal, lateral
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
horizontal; across; crosswise; horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters); to place (sth) flat (on a surface); to cross (a river, etc); in a jumble; chaotic; (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable; violent
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
horizontal, across; unreasonable, harsh
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
The opposite of vertical. Vertical lines are 縱; horizontal lines are 橫. During the Warring States period, there were Vertical and Horizontal Alliance strategists. 橫 referred to allying the six states to serve Qin. | Sideways. As in emerging sideways is called 橫出. | To place something upright horizontally is called 橫. Such as holding a halberd horizontally (橫槊), holding a sword horizontally (橫刀). | Relying on power and not following reason. As in acting tyrannically (橫行), acting contrary (橫逆).
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