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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
diaphragm
fierce-looking
rolling motion (of a boat)
Hengshan township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县, northwest Taiwan
from the side of the eye / askance
cartwheel
horizontal tablet (for an inscription)
horizontal scroll / banner / streamer
(of spittle, blood, bullets etc) to fly through the air
horizontal line / (math.) horizontal axis
Hengshan, the name of various places / Yokoyama (Japanese surname)
to sweep away / to sweep across
Yokosuka (port and navy base in the Tokyo bay)
to overflow / transverse flow / to flow over / cross flow
to span / to stretch across / to travel across
horizontal setting (printing)
filling the atmosphere / covering the sky
beam
to tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force
anyway
to overflow / brimming with
to die by violence
to grow without restraint / overflowing with / to happen unexpectedly
to cross (a body of water)
horizontal section
to cross (a road, an ocean etc) / to cut across
unexpected calamity
horizontal tablet (for an inscription)
horizontal scroll (for inscription)
Hengfeng county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi
to recline
to pick on sth incessantly (idiom) / to criticize right and left
violently / flagrantly
(colloquial) whatever / come what may
transverse wave
oblique / slanting
military wind and percussion music played on horseback under the Han / transverse flute / to play such a flute
total annihilation
to explain sth over and over again / to repeat
(idiom) to barge through, jostling and elbowing; to charge around; to rampage
horizontal fold or tuck
horizontal section
striated muscle
lit. furrowed brows and blazing eyes / to dart looks of hate at sb (idiom)
probably / most likely
bristles lying down (brush movement in painting)
to steel oneself / to harden one's heart
rank; row; troops (or vehicles etc) lined up side by side
horizontal coordinate / abscissa
pubic bone
Hengfeng county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi
diaphragm (anatomy)
to lie down all over the place / exhausted and in disarray
to rob sb of sth they cherish (idiom)
horizontal traverse / to cut across / to cross transversally
(table tennis) shakehand grip
in disorder / in a tremendous mess
(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
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
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
to cross / to pass over / to traverse / trans-
to cut across / a horizontal cut
cross-section
bar / horizontal bar
to scowl and stare down / to defy
side street / road branching from the main street
to blame unscrupulously
slogan banner
transversal line
(horizontal-starting right angle character stroke)
transverse vibration
stroke in Chinese characters
pedestrian crossing
transverse object
brutal / violent
horizontal beam / wooden crossbar / thwart
boom sail
lintel
lintel
banner / horizontal slogan or advertisement
sidestep (in dance) / step sideways
Yokohama, Japan
to deliberately complicate an issue (idiom)
to concentrate one's eyebrows / to frown / to scowl
transverse commissure
crosswise pattern

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