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橫

橫

See also: 横

Translingual

Shinjitai 横
Simplified 横
Traditional 橫

Han character

橫 (radical 75 木+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 木廿一金 (DTMC) or X木廿一金 (XDTMC), four-corner 44986, composition ⿰木黃)

References

  • KangXi: page 555, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15594
  • Dae Jaweon: page 944, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 2, page 1288, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6A6B

Chinese

trad. 橫
simp. 横

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 橫
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (黄) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
横 *kʷaːŋ
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
黌 *ɡʷraːŋ
鐄 *ɡʷraːŋ
嚝 *qʰʷraːŋ
彉 *kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ
彍 *kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs) : semantic 木 ‎(“wood”) + phonetic 黃 ‎(OC *ɡʷaːŋ).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 橫 (橫豎) 橫 (蠻橫)
Mandarin Beijing /xəŋ³⁵/ /xəŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /xəŋ²⁴/ /xəŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /xəŋ⁴⁵/ /xəŋ⁵³/
Jinan /xəŋ²¹/ /xəŋ²¹/
Qingdao /xəŋ⁴²/ /xəŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /xəŋ³¹²/ /xəŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /xuŋ⁴⁴/ /xuŋ⁴⁴/
Xining /xuə̃²⁴/ /xuə̃⁵³/
Yinchuan /xuŋ⁵³/
/xəŋ⁵³/ 		/xuŋ¹³/
/xəŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /xũn¹³/ /xũn¹³/
Ürümqi /xɤŋ⁵¹/
/xuŋ²¹³/ 		/xɤŋ⁵¹/
/xuŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /xuən²¹³/ /xuən²¹³/
Chengdu /xuən³¹/ /xuən³¹/
Guiyang /xuan²¹/
/xen²¹/ 		/xuen²¹/
Kunming /xuə̃³¹/ /xuə̃¹/
Nanjing /xun²⁴/ /xən⁴⁴/
Hefei /xʊ̃⁵⁵/ /xən⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /xəŋ¹¹/ /xəŋ⁴⁵/
Pingyao /xəŋ¹³/
/ɕye̞¹³/ 		/xəŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /xə̃ŋ³¹/ /xə̃ŋ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦuɑ̃²³/ /ɦuɑ̃²³/
Suzhou /ɦuã¹³/ /ɦuã³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦuɑŋ²¹³/ /ʔuɑŋ³³/
Wenzhou /viɛ³¹/ /viɛ³¹/
Hui Shexian /uɛ⁴⁴/ /uɛ⁴⁴/
Tunxi /uɛ⁴⁴/ /xuɛ⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /fən¹³/
/uan¹¹/ 		/fən¹³/
Xiangtan /ɸən¹²/ /ɸən¹²/
Gan Nanchang /uɑŋ⁴⁵/
/fɛn⁴⁵/ ～峰縣 		/fɛn²¹/ ～財
Hakka Meixian /vaŋ¹¹/ /vaŋ⁵³/
Taoyuan /vɑŋ¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /waŋ²¹/ /waŋ²²/
/waŋ²¹/
Nanning /waŋ²¹/ /waŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /waŋ²¹/ /waŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hiŋ³⁵/
/huãi³⁵/ 		/hiŋ²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /huaŋ⁵³/ /haiŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xuaŋ³³/ /xuaŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /huẽ⁵⁵/ /huẽ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hɔŋ³¹/
/hue³¹/ 		/hɔŋ⁵⁵/ 俗
/hue³¹/ 俗
Rime
Character 橫 橫 橫
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 匣 (33) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 唐 (102) 庚 (110) 庚 (110)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed Closed
Division (等) I II II
Fanqie 古黃切 戸盲切 戸孟切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kwɑŋ/ /ɦˠwæŋ/ /ɦˠwæŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʷɑŋ/ /ɦʷᵚaŋ/ /ɦʷᵚaŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuɑŋ/ /ɣuaŋ/ /ɣuaŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwaŋ/ /ɦwaɨjŋ/ /ɦwaɨjŋH/
Li
Rong		 /kuɑŋ/ /ɣuɐŋ/ /ɣuɐŋH/
Wang
Li		 /kuɑŋ/ /ɣwɐŋ/ /ɣwɐŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kwɑŋ/ /ɣwɐŋ/ /ɣwɐŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 guāng hóng hòng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 橫
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 héng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hwæng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.ɡʷˤraŋ/
English crosswise; horizontal

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 橫 橫
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 5399 5402
Phonetic
component		 黄 黄
Rime
group		 陽 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 橫 蝗
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡʷraːŋ/ /*ɡʷraːŋs/

Definitions

橫

  1. across, horizontal, lateral (horizontal character stroke)
  2. to move crosswise; transverse
  3. unrestrainedly; turbulently
  4. A surname​.
  5. (Chinese calligraphy) a horizontal stroke (㇐)

Antonyms

  • (lateral): 縱／纵 (zòng, “vertical”)

Coordinate terms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

橫

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 横)

  1. sideways, horizontal

Readings

  • Goon: おう (ō), (historical) わう (wau)
  • Kan’on: こう (kō), (historical) くわう (kwau)
  • Kun: よこ (yoko), よこたわる (横たわる, yokotawaru), よこたえる (横たえる, yokotaeru)

Korean

Hanja

橫 • ‎(hoeng) (hangeul 횡)

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Vietnamese

Han character

橫 (hoành, hoàng)

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