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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
in disorder / at sixes and sevens (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to cut across / a horizontal cut
banner / horizontal slogan or advertisement
slogan banner
Yokosuka city and US naval base to the west of Yokohama, Japan
to go on the rampage / to riot / to run amuck
lit. furrowed brows and blazing eyes / to dart looks of hate at sb (idiom)
crosswise pattern
striated muscle
transverse commissure
anyway
transverse wave
boom sail
to die by violence
horizontal setting (printing)
beam
horizontal tablet (for an inscription)
horizontal line / (math.) horizontal axis
horizontal beam / wooden crossbar / thwart
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
to sweep away / to sweep across
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
to cross (a body of water)
filling the atmosphere / covering the sky
violently / flagrantly
to recline
to overflow / brimming with
transverse colon (anatomy) / second section of large intestine
unexpected calamity
to rob sb of sth they cherish (idiom)
to cross / to pass over / to traverse / trans-
to deliberately complicate an issue (idiom)
total annihilation
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
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
rank; row; troops (or vehicles etc) lined up side by side
Yokosuka (port and navy base in the Tokyo bay)
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
(table tennis) shakehand grip
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)
diaphragm (anatomy)
(horizontal-starting right angle character stroke)
side street / crossroad
from the side of the eye / askance
to traverse
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)
horizontal stripe / striation
diaphragm
lintel
bar / horizontal bar
to scowl and stare down / to defy
to lie flat
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
in disorder / in a tremendous mess
horizontal section
corpses are strewn across the field (typically after a battle)
to cut across / cross-sectional / transverse
transversal line
to pick on sth incessantly (idiom) / to criticize right and left
transverse vibration
rolling motion (of a boat)
horizontal fold or tuck
oblique / slanting
stroke in Chinese characters
pedestrian crossing

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