Kanji
Readingよこ
Frequency91%
Used in (144 in total)
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside
profile; face in profile; face seen from the side; (personal) profile; (biographical) sketch; outline (of someone's life)
to lie down; to stretch out; to lie ahead (of danger, difficulty, etc.); to lie in wait
sidelong glance; short grain (paper)
to lie down (and rest)
from one's side; from the side (of something); from someone unconnected; from someone uninvolved
to cross (e.g. road); to traverse
(right at the) side; just beside
Yokohama (city)
to lay down; to wear (a sword, etc.) at one's side
to look away; to turn away
snatching; stealing; seizure; usurpation
sweeping sideways; mowing down
side; flank
horizontally; flat; across; crossways; crosswise
length and width; length and breadth; four cardinal points; every direction; as one wishes; as one pleases
turning sideways; landscape orientation
falling over; toppling sideways
side; beside; feature of a sword blade
side; flank
cave; tunnel; tunnel tomb (Kofun period)
striking on the side; side blow; slanting (rain, snow, etc.); driving
breadth; width
diversion into illegal channels; putting on the black market; selling through illegal channels
going along with something; following the crowd; treating something in an equal or egalitarian manner
bystreet; side street; back street; alley; lane
interruption; interference; butting in
carrying (child) under arm
jumping sideways; flying sideways; running hurriedly (with one's body bent forward)
to interrupt; to butt in
oblong; landscape orientation
horizontal script (esp. of a European language); European writing; Roman letters; European language; Western language
bringing alongside (ship, vehicle, etc.); coming alongside; mooring
yokozuna (highest rank in sumo); grand champion; best in its field; crème de la crème; cream of the crop
to butt into a conversation (from someone uninvolved)
sideslip; skid; shifting to another post (at the same level); sideways move (at a company); sliding sideways down a slope (skiing)
lateral direction; horizontal direction; transverse direction; landscape orientation
cutting in line; queue jumping
sitting with one's legs out to one side
side of face
horizontal line
transverse flute (e.g. a fife)
crosspiece; bar; rail
writing horizontally; horizontal writing
to throw oneself down; to lie down
byway; side street; cross street; wrong way; digression
to turn sideways
(repeated) side stepping (stamina test); side-step test
horizontal shaking (of an earthquake); rolling (of a boat, aircraft, etc.); swaying
bar set in a horizontal position; horizontal bar
side stepping; sidling
horizontal stripes; lateral stripes
loving something but being very bad at it
abscissa; horizontal axis; horizontal scroll
wickedness; sideways; unreasonable
jumping sideways; flying sideways; running hurriedly (with one's body bent forward)
side of the breast; sideboob; side-boob
vertical and horizontal; warp and weft (weaving); warp and woof
sidewise crawl (e.g. of a crab); crawling sideways; leafhopper (insect); jassid; sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes); levelling off (of prices, etc.)
crosswind; side wind
perverseness; obstinacy; something unreasonable (like pushing a cart from the side (instead of from behind)); side wheel throw (judo)
to have one's own way (against all reason); to push through an unreasonable idea
weft; woof (crosswise threads on a loom)
transverse wave; beam sea
crosscut plank; rear part of a noh stage
wall of clouds; bank of clouds
moat; horizontal trench
being crazy about something, but not be good at it
holding horizontally in one's mouth; holding on the side of one's mouth
facing one's opponent head-on and winning via overwhelmingly superior strength or skill; match in which a yokozuna overpowers his opponent
transversal; lateral stripes
yoko-shiho-gatame (judo hold in which the opponent's shoulders and hips are pinned)
grand champion considered to be truly great, usually with over 10 makuuchi tournament wins
something wider than it is high; artwork with a horizontal aspect (e.g. scroll)
horizontal typesetting
bubo (inflamed swelling in a gland)
throwing sideways
using horizontal characters in vertical writing
flowing into the black market
conveyance (of goods, materials, etc.); holding horizontally (e.g. a smartphone)
driving rain
sleeping on one's side; lying on one's side
binding a book in an oblong shape
square pass (soccer); crossing pass; lateral pass
horizontal beam; stringpiece; trave
wicked; evil
round mallet
sharp-sidelong glance; glare
sidestroke (swimming)
grand champion filling the rank of champion to keep their number at 2
short and fat; pudgy; stocky
wrestler newly promoted to grand champion
cross member; crosspiece
tunnel tomb (Kofun period)
halting speech; stammering
former grand champion's 60th birthday ring-entering ceremony
university amateur champion
half-pass (horse gait)
Yokoyama Shinto (Edo-period Shinto sect promoted by Masae Yokoyama)
to beat a grand champion
leg-yield (horse gait)
writing horizontally from right to left
writing horizontally from left to right
Yokozuna Deliberation Committee; body that recommends promotion of wrestlers to grand champions
champion of children's sumo
horizontal friction; strike-slip
message butting in (to a conversation between two other people on a BBS, etc.)
sideboob; (visible) side of a woman's breast
yokohyōgo; yoko-hyogo; extravagant female hairstyle worn by oiran courtesans
side-striped jackal (carnivore, Canis adustus)
mental characteristics expected of a grand champion
Metagonimus yokogawai (species of intestinal fluke)
double-width size (of text)
joining both chopsticks together and using them as a spoon (breach of chopstick etiquette)
crossing boundaries (structural, organizational, etc.)
either side of a rikishi's mawashi
practice session where grand champion is present
to hurriedly prepare one's home for guests; (lit.) to clean one's garden with a mallet
gammaridean amphipod (any small, shrimp-like crustacean of suborder Gammaridea)
green rice leafhopper (Nephotettix cincticeps)
zig-zag rice leafhopper (Recilia dorsalis)
Bothrogonia ferruginea (species of leafhopper)
conversing in a foreign language while eating; Western-style food
humpnose big-eye bream (Monotaxis grandoculis); bigeye emperor
sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes)
spotstripe snapper (species of fish, Lutjanus ophuysenii)
Yokoyama Station (Ishikawa)