横 (héng): meaning and stroke order
横 (héng) means horizontal, across, crosswise, horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters).
横
- Simplified
- 横
- Traditional
- 橫
- Pinyin
- héng · hèng
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Stroke order of 横
横
- héng horizontal; across
- hèng harsh and unreasonable; unexpected
- 15 strokes
- Traditional form: 橫
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Meaning of 横
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héng
Traditional 橫
- 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
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hèng
Traditional 橫
- harsh and unreasonable
- unexpected
Radical and structure
- 横
- Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 15 strokes · 木 on the left, 黄 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).