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How to write 横, stroke by stroke

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What 横 means

héng

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

hèng

harsh and unreasonable; unexpected

Pictophonetic: semantic 木 (tree), phonetic 黄

Made of 木 + 黄

Words with 横

• 横跨héng kuàto span; to stretch across; to travel across
• 横扫héng sǎoto sweep away; to sweep across
• 横行héng xíngto go on the rampage; to riot; to run amuck
• 横穿héng chuānto cross; to traverse
• 横渡héng dùto cross (a body of water)
• 横越héng yuèto cross; to pass over; to traverse; trans-
• 横梁héng liángbeam
• 专横zhuān hèngimperious; peremptory
• 横幅héng fúhorizontal scroll; banner; streamer
• 蛮横mán hèngrude and unreasonable
• 横向héng xiànghorizontal; orthogonal; perpendicular; lateral; crosswise
• 才华横溢cái huá héng yìbrimming over with talent (esp. literary); brilliant

横 in a sentence

• 工程横跨了两个世纪才完成，

  gōng chéng héng kuà le liǎng gè shì jì cái wán chéng ，

  The construction straddled two centuries.

• 横街的那端有一个幼儿园。

  héng jiē de nà duān yǒu yí gè yòu ér yuán 。

  There is a kindergarten at the other end of the street.

• 火车什么时候到横滨？

  huǒ chē shén me shí hòu dào héng bīn ？

  What time does this train reach Yokohama?

Characters that sound like 横

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