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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
(horizontal-starting right angle character stroke)
to recline
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *橫* | 橫* | *橫
harsh and unreasonable / unexpected
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to barge through, jostling and elbowing; to charge around; to rampage
diaphragm (anatomy)
horizontal / orthogonal / perpendicular / lateral / crosswise
HSK 7-9
to concentrate one's eyebrows / to frown / to scowl
to scowl and stare down / to defy
to grow without restraint / overflowing with / to happen unexpectedly
horizontal scroll / banner / streamer
horizontal line / (math.) horizontal axis
diaphragm (anatomy)
lit. furrowed brows and blazing eyes / to dart looks of hate at sb (idiom)
to pick on sth incessantly (idiom) / to criticize right and left
horizontal setting (printing)
Yokosuka (port and navy base in the Tokyo bay)
to overflow / brimming with
to cross / to traverse
cartwheel
beam
to explain sth over and over again / to repeat
to cross / to pass over / to traverse / trans-
to go on the rampage / to riot / to run amuck
easy money / windfall / ill-gotten gains / undeserved fortune / illegal profit
in disorder / at sixes and sevens (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to sweep away / to sweep across
lintel
horizontal section
to face a thousand pointing fingers with a cool scowl (citation from Lu Xun) / to treat with disdain / to defy
fierce-looking
corpses are strewn across the field (typically after a battle)
oblique / slanting
brutal / violent
to blame unscrupulously
in disorder / in a tremendous mess
violently / flagrantly
rolling motion (of a boat)
(idiom) to come to the fore in spectacular fashion; to emerge from obscurity to achieve great success
to oppress / to rule as a despot / to tyrannize
from the side of the eye / askance
(table tennis) shakehand grip
transverse vibration
pedestrian crossing
to cross (a body of water)
Yokohama, major port city in Kanagawa prefecture 神奈川縣|神奈川县, Japan
bristles lying down (brush movement in painting)
horizontal fold or tuck
striated muscle
to lie in disarray / to cut across / to traverse
to rob sb of sth they cherish (idiom)
to cross (a road, an ocean etc) / to cut across
horizontal stroke with a hook at the end (in Chinese characters)
pubic bone
horizontal tablet (for an inscription)
total annihilation
cross-section
horizontal section
probably / most likely
anyway
horizontal coordinate / abscissa
(bird species of China) spotted owlet (Athene brama)
horizontal traverse / to cut across / to cross transversally
coarse and arrogant / always in the right
to scowl fiercely / to glare
to traverse
(colloquial) whatever / come what may
to die by violence
to overflow / transverse flow / to flow over / cross flow
tabula (horizontal floor of polyp)
horizontal stripe / striation
to tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force
Yokohama, Japan
filling the atmosphere / covering the sky
Hengfeng, a county in Shangrao City 上饒市|上饶市, Jiangxi
slogan banner
transverse object
horizontal tablet (for an inscription)
to steel oneself / to harden one's heart
stroke in Chinese characters
yokozuna
to lie down all over the place / exhausted and in disarray
Hengduan mountains, several parallel mountain ranges on the border between west Yunnan and Sichuan and east Tibet
lintel
rank; row; troops (or vehicles etc) lined up side by side
Yokosuka city and US naval base to the west of Yokohama, Japan
transverse wave
diaphragm
side street / road branching from the main street
boom sail
to cut across / a horizontal cut
to turn cartwheels
to span / to stretch across / to travel across
military wind and percussion music played on horseback under the Han / transverse flute / to play such a flute
transverse colon (anatomy) / second section of large intestine
Hengshan, the name of various places / Yokoyama (Japanese surname)
Hengzhou, a county-level city in Nanning City 南寧市|南宁市, Guangxi

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