Keyword
sideways
Info
FrequencyTop 300-400
Type
Kyōiku (3rd grade) 
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Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel 8
Heisig1888
Old form
Readings
よこ
(91%)
おう
(8%)
Composed of
tree
yellow
Used in vocabulary (242 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
to lie down; to stretch out; to lie ahead (of danger, difficulty, etc.); to lie in wait
profile; face in profile; face seen from the side; (personal) profile; (biographical) sketch; outline (of someone's life)
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
Yokohama (city)
(right at the) side; just beside
to lay down; to wear (a sword, etc.) at one's side
violence; oppression; high-handedness; tyranny; despotism
to look away; to turn away
snatching; stealing; seizure; usurpation
freely; right and left; as one pleases
horizontally; flat; across; crossways; crosswise
crossing; traversing; traversing horizontally; passing west to east (or east to west); cutting horizontally
length and width; length and breadth; four cardinal points; every direction; as one wishes; as one pleases
turning sideways; landscape orientation
side; flank
arrogant; haughty; insolent
sweeping sideways; mowing down
falling over; toppling sideways
embezzlement; misappropriation; usurpation
pedestrian crossing; crosswalk
toppling sideways; turning sideways; falling over sideways; barrel roll
side; flank
side; beside; feature of a sword blade
walking sideways; staggering; striding; being rampant; being widespread; being prevalent
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
wickedness; evil; iniquity; wrongness
going along with something; following the crowd; treating something in an equal or egalitarian manner
cave; tunnel; tunnel tomb (Kofun period)
carrying (child) under arm
interruption; interference; butting in
laziness; shirking; impudent; brazenly dishonest
bystreet; side street; back street; alley; lane
to interrupt; to butt in
jumping sideways; flying sideways; running hurriedly (with one's body bent forward)
oblong; landscape orientation
bystreet; side street; back street; alley; lane
bringing alongside (ship, vehicle, etc.); coming alongside; mooring
horizontal script (esp. of a European language); European writing; Roman letters; European language; Western language
yokozuna (highest rank in sumo); grand champion; best in its field; crème de la crème; cream of the crop
interruption; interference; butting in
to butt into a conversation (from someone uninvolved)
horizontal banner
arbitrariness; despotism; high-handedness; tyranny
sideslip; skid; shifting to another post (at the same level); sideways move (at a company); sliding sideways down a slope (skiing)
side of face
lateral direction; horizontal direction; transverse direction; landscape orientation
to cross (e.g. road); to traverse
cutting in line; queue jumping
sitting with one's legs out to one side
to interrupt; to butt in
horizontal line
to throw oneself down; to lie down
transverse flute (e.g. a fife)
crosspiece; bar; rail
overflowing; inundation
to turn sideways
byway; side street; cross street; wrong way; digression
writing horizontally; horizontal writing
bringing alongside (ship, vehicle, etc.); coming alongside; mooring
(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
striking on the side; side blow; slanting (rain, snow, etc.); driving
lying on one's side
sidewise crawl (e.g. of a crab); crawling sideways; leafhopper (insect); jassid; sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes); levelling off (of prices, etc.)
side stepping; sidling
loving something but being very bad at it
violent (tragic or accidental) death; dog's death
jumping sideways; flying sideways; running hurriedly (with one's body bent forward)
rank (e.g. of soldiers); horizontal line
horizontal stripes; lateral stripes
abscissa; horizontal axis; horizontal scroll
arrogant; haughty
vertical and horizontal; warp and weft (weaving); warp and woof
jumping sideways; flying sideways; running hurriedly (with one's body bent forward)
side of the breast; sideboob; side-boob
crosswind; side wind
to butt into a conversation (from someone uninvolved)
wickedness; sideways; unreasonable
to have one's own way (against all reason); to push through an unreasonable idea
shirker; goof-off; goldbricker
weft; woof (crosswise threads on a loom)
transverse wave; beam sea
sidewise crawl (e.g. of a crab); crawling sideways; leafhopper (insect); jassid; sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes); levelling off (of prices, etc.)
perverseness; obstinacy; something unreasonable (like pushing a cart from the side (instead of from behind)); side wheel throw (judo)
jumping sideways; flying sideways; running hurriedly (with one's body bent forward)
sitting with one's legs out to one side
trans-Atlantic; trans-Atlantic crossing
misappropriation of public funds
fraudulent appropriation
misappropriation; embezzlement
square sail
jumping sideways; flying sideways; running hurriedly (with one's body bent forward)
crosscut plank; rear part of a noh stage
wall of clouds; bank of clouds
moat; horizontal trench
sideslip; skid; shifting to another post (at the same level); sideways move (at a company); sliding sideways down a slope (skiing)
trans-Pacific; trans-Pacific crossing
jumping sideways; flying sideways; running hurriedly (with one's body bent forward)
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
cross-sectional; lateral; transverse; transversal; cross-cutting
very resourcefully using tactics adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment; playing it by ear; acting according to circumstances
being crazy about something, but not be good at it
wrestler newly promoted to grand champion
using horizontal characters in vertical writing
Yokozuna Deliberation Committee; body that recommends promotion of wrestlers to grand champions
(transverse) cross section
grand champion considered to be truly great, usually with over 10 makuuchi tournament wins
yoko-shiho-gatame (judo hold in which the opponent's shoulders and hips are pinned)
transversal; lateral stripes
something wider than it is high; artwork with a horizontal aspect (e.g. scroll)
throwing sideways
horizontal typesetting
bubo (inflamed swelling in a gland)
university amateur champion
School of Diplomacy; one of the Schools of Thought during the Warring States period in China
flowing into the black market
freely; right and left; active without any restraint; with unrestricted energy in all directions
conveyance (of goods, materials, etc.); holding horizontally (e.g. a smartphone)
driving rain
writing horizontally; horizontal writing
transverse abdominal muscle; transversus abdominis muscle
sleeping on one's side; lying on one's side
long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier); guandao; Chinese glaive
selfish words; speaking selfishly
sideslip; skid; shifting to another post (at the same level); sideways move (at a company); sliding sideways down a slope (skiing)
square pass (soccer); crossing pass; lateral pass
binding a book in an oblong shape
sweeping sideways; mowing down
horizontal (Western) writing
being very witty; very ingenious and resourceful
being full of vitality (energy); in exuberant spirits; effervescent; ebullient
horizontal beam; stringpiece; trave
pedestrian bridge; footbridge
sharp-sidelong glance; glare
wicked; evil
sharp-sidelong glance; glare
sidestroke (swimming)
round mallet
grand champion filling the rank of champion to keep their number at 2
arguing persistently
being rampant; (evildoers) roaming at will
cross member; crosspiece
traversing horizontally; passing through laterally; running east to west
loving something but being very bad at it
short and fat; pudgy; stocky
cross-departmental; cross-functional
halting speech; stammering
yoko-shiho-gatame (judo hold in which the opponent's shoulders and hips are pinned)
tunnel tomb (Kofun period)
no crossing; do not cross
holding horizontally in one's mouth; holding on the side of one's mouth
conveyance (of goods, materials, etc.); holding horizontally (e.g. a smartphone)
being very witty; very ingenious and resourceful
gammaridean amphipod (any small, shrimp-like crustacean of suborder Gammaridea)
gammaridean amphipod (any small, shrimp-like crustacean of suborder Gammaridea)
green rice leafhopper (Nephotettix cincticeps)
green rice leafhopper (Nephotettix cincticeps)
zig-zag rice leafhopper (Recilia dorsalis)
being as free as the air; active without any restraint
to beat a grand champion
practice session where grand champion is present
mental characteristics expected of a grand champion
former grand champion's 60th birthday ring-entering ceremony
champion of children's sumo
being full of vitality (energy); in exuberant spirits; effervescent; ebullient
resourceful and quick-witted; showing a flash of brilliance; having a keen intellect
wayward (irresponsible) criticisms of political matters by private citizens
prevalence of arbitrariness; rife with arbitrary decisions (acting on one's own authority)
horizontal structural members (beams, girders, etc.) of a building
side-striped jackal (carnivore, Canis adustus)
either side of a rikishi's mawashi
horizontal friction; strike-slip
message butting in (to a conversation between two other people on a BBS, etc.)
Metagonimus yokogawai (species of intestinal fluke)
half-pass (horse gait)
leg-yield (horse gait)
double-width size (of text)
joining both chopsticks together and using them as a spoon (breach of chopstick etiquette)
overflowing; flooding
sideboob; (visible) side of a woman's breast
yokohyōgo; yoko-hyogo; extravagant female hairstyle worn by oiran courtesans
Yokoyama Shinto (Edo-period Shinto sect promoted by Masae Yokoyama)
transverse temporal gyri; ridges on the cerebral cortex; Heschl's gyri; Heschl's convolutions
cross-cut; crossline; transversal; transverse line
writing horizontally from left to right
writing horizontally from left to right
writing horizontally from right to left
writing horizontally from right to left
crossing boundaries (structural, organizational, etc.)
to hurriedly prepare one's home for guests; (lit.) to clean one's garden with a mallet
Yokoyama Station (Ishikawa)
sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes)
spotstripe snapper (species of fish, Lutjanus ophuysenii)
humpnose big-eye bream (Monotaxis grandoculis); bigeye emperor
Bothrogonia ferruginea (species of leafhopper)
conversing in a foreign language while eating; Western-style food
conversing in a foreign language while eating; Western-style food
Examples (200 in total)
The cat likes to sleep beside me.
The side of my tongue hurts.
He shook his head.