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横
横
Translingual
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| Shinjitai | 横 |
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| Simplified | 横 |
| Traditional | 橫 |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 横
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| Large seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (黄) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| 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 *kʷaːŋ) : semantic 木 + phonetic 黄. Simplified from 橫 (黃 → 黄)
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
| For pronunciation and definitions of 横 – see 橫. (This character, 横, is the simplified form of 橫.) |
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Japanese
Kanji
横
(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 橫)
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