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  *横* | 横* | *横
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
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *横* | 横* | *横
harsh and unreasonable / unexpected
HSK 7-9
horizontal / orthogonal / perpendicular / lateral / crosswise
HSK 7-9
criss-crossed (idiom)
HSK 7-9
in disorder / at sixes and sevens (idiom)
HSK 7-9
Yokosuka city and US naval base to the west of Yokohama, Japan
to go on the rampage / to riot / to run amuck
crosswalk; pedestrian crossing
lit. warp and weft in weaving; vertically and horizontal / length and breadth / criss-crossed / able to move unhindered / abbr. for 合縱連橫|合纵连横, School of Diplomacy during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
anyway
horizontal setting (printing)
beam
to cut across / a horizontal cut
horizontal line / (math.) horizontal axis
horizontal scroll / banner / streamer
side street / road branching from the main street
to span / to stretch across / to travel across
to overflow / transverse flow / to flow over / cross flow
horizontal scroll (for inscription)
to cross / to traverse
Yokohama, Japan
transverse wave
to sweep away / to sweep across
rude and unreasonable
Hengfeng county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi
horizontal section
to grow without restraint / overflowing with / to happen unexpectedly
to oppress / to rule as a despot / to tyrannize
endlessly interesting (idiom) / very witty
to cross (a body of water)
striated muscle
arrogant / overbearing
imperious / peremptory
to die by violence
(idiom) corpses are strewn across the field (typically after a battle)
(idiom) flesh and blood flying in all directions; carnage
filling the atmosphere / covering the sky
violently / flagrantly
Horizontal Alliance, clique of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)
to recline
to overflow / brimming with
transverse colon (anatomy) / second section of large intestine
to criss-cross / to run unhindered across the whole country
unexpected calamity
to rob sb of sth they cherish (idiom)
rude and unreasonable
to cross / to pass over / to traverse / trans-
to deliberately complicate an issue (idiom)
horizontal beam / wooden crossbar / thwart
Yokosuka (port and navy base in the Tokyo bay)
total annihilation
old and decrepit / proud of one's age and experience (idiom)
to concentrate one's eyebrows / to frown / to scowl
fierce-looking
to tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force
(colloquial) whatever / come what may
lit. furrowed brows and blazing eyes / to dart looks of hate at sb (idiom)
to lie in disarray / to cut across / to traverse
horizontal tablet (for an inscription)
to steel oneself / to harden one's heart
to scowl fiercely / to glare
horizontal tablet (for an inscription)
rank; row; troops (or vehicles etc) lined up side by side
to explain sth over and over again / to repeat
Hengshan, the name of various places / Yokoyama (Japanese surname)
to lie down all over the place / exhausted and in disarray
banner / horizontal slogan or advertisement
to cross (a road, an ocean etc) / to cut across
brutal / violent
(bird species of China) spotted owlet (Athene brama)
horizontal stroke with a hook at the end (in Chinese characters)
(idiom) to speak vehemently; to express oneself with great passion
(horizontal-starting right angle character stroke)
side street / crossroad
from the side of the eye / askance
to traverse
School of Diplomacy of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) whose leading advocates were Su Qin 蘇秦|苏秦 and Zhang Yi 張儀|张仪
Vertical and Horizontal Alliance, opposing stratagems devised by the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)
cross-section
Yokohama, major port city in Kanagawa prefecture 神奈川縣|神奈川县, Japan
Hengfeng county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi
Hengduan mountains, several parallel mountain ranges on the border between west Yunnan and Sichuan and east Tibet
to blame unscrupulously
horizontal coordinate / abscissa
(of spittle, blood, bullets etc) to fly through the air
diaphragm (anatomy)
(saying) a person cannot become wealthy without windfall profits (or ill-gotten gains etc), just as a horse cannot get fat without night feed
horizontal stripe / striation
diaphragm
lintel
bar / horizontal bar
to scowl and stare down / to defy
to lie flat
crossword
military wind and percussion music played on horseback under the Han / transverse flute / to play such a flute
Hengshan township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县, northwest Taiwan
(bird species of China) barred warbler (Curruca nisoria)
bristles lying down (brush movement in painting)
yokozuna

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