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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *橫* | 橫* | *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
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *橫* | 橫* | *橫
harsh and unreasonable / unexpected
HSK 7-9
horizontal / orthogonal / perpendicular / lateral / crosswise
HSK 7-9
in disorder / at sixes and sevens (idiom)
HSK 7-9
criss-crossed (idiom)
HSK 7-9
fierce-looking
rolling motion (of a boat)
from the side of the eye / askance
horizontal tablet (for an inscription)
horizontal scroll / banner / streamer
(of spittle, blood, bullets etc) to fly through the air
horizontal line / (math.) horizontal axis
sudden and unexpected disaster (idiom)
Hengshan, the name of various places / Yokoyama (Japanese surname)
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)
to sweep away / to sweep across
to overflow / transverse flow / to flow over / cross flow
to span / to stretch across / to travel across
horizontal setting (printing)
surly and unreasoning / bullying / tyrannical
filling the atmosphere / covering the sky
rude and unreasonable
Yokosuka (port and navy base in the Tokyo bay)
beam
anyway
to overflow / brimming with
arrogant / overbearing
to die by violence
to grow without restraint / overflowing with / to happen unexpectedly
to cross (a body of water)
horizontal section
(idiom) corpses are strewn across the field (typically after a battle)
to cross (a road, an ocean etc) / to cut across
unexpected calamity
horizontal tablet (for an inscription)
endlessly interesting (idiom) / very witty
horizontal scroll (for inscription)
tears and mucus flowing profusely / sniveling / in a tragic state
Hengfeng county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi
to recline
to pick on sth incessantly (idiom) / to criticize right and left
violently / flagrantly
crosswalk; pedestrian crossing
(colloquial) whatever / come what may
transverse wave
striated muscle
oblique / slanting
military wind and percussion music played on horseback under the Han / transverse flute / to play such a flute
total annihilation
diaphragm
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
to explain sth over and over again / to repeat
(coll.) meek and civil in public, but a tyrant at home
(idiom) to barge through, jostling and elbowing; to charge around; to rampage
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)
horizontal fold or tuck
horizontal section
to make easy money / to make a fortune / to line one's pockets
imperious / peremptory
lit. furrowed brows and blazing eyes / to dart looks of hate at sb (idiom)
probably / most likely
to steel oneself / to harden one's heart
to tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force
rank; row; troops (or vehicles etc) lined up side by side
horizontal coordinate / abscissa
pubic bone
tears and mucus flowing profusely / sniveling / in a tragic state
Hengfeng county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi
Horizontal Alliance, clique of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)
diaphragm (anatomy)
in disorder / in a tremendous mess
to lie down all over the place / exhausted and in disarray
to rob sb of sth they cherish (idiom)
cape jasmine (Gardenia jasminoides), esp. grown as bonsai
to be full of wit and humor
horizontal traverse / to cut across / to cross transversally
(idiom) spiced with wit / very witty
to butt in / to interfere / to make things difficult
(table tennis) shakehand grip
(idiom) to come to the fore in spectacular fashion; to emerge from obscurity to achieve great success
easy money / windfall / ill-gotten gains / undeserved fortune / illegal profit
to traverse
rude and unreasonable
to scowl fiercely / to glare
horizontal stripe / striation
Yokohama, major port city in Kanagawa prefecture 神奈川縣|神奈川县, Japan
yokozuna
corpses are strewn across the field (typically after a battle)
(bird species of China) spotted owlet (Athene brama)
to face a thousand pointing fingers with a cool scowl (citation from Lu Xun) / to treat with disdain / to defy
(idiom) flesh and blood flying in all directions; carnage
to cut across / cross-sectional / transverse
(bird species of China) barred warbler (Curruca nisoria)
Hengduan mountains, several parallel mountain ranges on the border between west Yunnan and Sichuan and east Tibet
bristles lying down (brush movement in painting)
to cross / to pass over / to traverse / trans-
side issues keep arising (idiom)
to cut across / a horizontal cut
cross-section
bar / horizontal bar

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