ヨコ
Meanings
Noun
1. horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down
2. side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; breadth
3. side (of a box, etc.)
4. beside; aside; next to
5. unconnected
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (80 in total)
① 道理から外れていること。行状や志操が悪いこと。② 横向き。よこさま。
Yokohama (city)
length and width; length and breadth; lengthwise and crosswise; longitude and latitude; vertical and horizontal
leafhopper (insect); jassid; sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes); levelling off (of prices, etc.); stabilizing
horizontal script (esp. of a European language); European writing; Roman letters; European language; Western language
gammaridean amphipod (any small, shrimp-like crustacean of suborder Gammaridea)
bystreet; side street; back street; alley; lane
bringing alongside (ship, vehicle, etc.); coming alongside; mooring
sideslip; skid; shifting to another post (at the same level); sideways move (at a company); sliding sideways down a slope (skiing)
① 他人の配偶者や恋人と分かっていながら横合いから恋い慕うこと。
① 横を見ること。頭を動かしたり顔を向けずに視線だけで横を見ること。その目つき。② ちらっと見て無視したりかかわらないこと。③ 木目や紙の目などが横に走っていること。そのもの。④ 脇見をすること。⑤ 他に目を移すこと。他に心を移すこと。⑥ 監視すること。その人。⑦ 横目付の略称。
from one's side; from the side (of something); from someone unconnected; from someone uninvolved
① ちょうど横。
snatching; stealing; seizure; usurpation
horizontally; flat; across; crossways; crosswise
side; flank
sweeping sideways; mowing down
turning sideways; landscape orientation
side; beside; feature of a sword blade
striking on the side; side blow; slanting (rain, snow, etc.); driving
cave; tunnel; tunnel tomb (Kofun period)
① 話し合いの途中で第三者がそばから口を出して文句をつけたり妨げたりすること。容喙。② 両軍が合戦中に別の一隊が槍で横合いから突きかかること。わきやり。
diversion into illegal channels; putting on the black market; selling through illegal channels
breadth; width
going along with something; following the crowd; treating something in an equal or egalitarian manner
① よことび。
side of face
oblong; landscape orientation
horizontal line
lateral direction; horizontal direction; transverse direction; landscape orientation
right side
side of face
cutting in line; queue jumping
① 布を織る際に、織る人から見て縦に張った縦糸に、を使って、交差させる糸。
crosspiece; bar; rail
left side
byway; side street; cross street; wrong way; digression
horizontal shaking (of an earthquake); rolling (of a boat, aircraft, etc.); swaying
① 横に跳ぶこと。よこっとび。
① 水平方向又は側面に取り付けた棒。横向きの棒。② 漢字の横に引いた線。横画。
side stepping; sidling
abscissa; horizontal axis; horizontal scroll
wickedness; sideways; unreasonable
wickedness; sideways; unreasonable
side of the breast; sideboob; side-boob
vertical and horizontal; warp and weft (weaving); warp and woof
vertical and horizontal; warp and weft (weaving); warp and woof
crosswind; side wind
① 船などの横側から打ち付ける波。② 波動を伝える媒質の振動する方向と波の進行する方向が垂直である波。
crosscut plank; rear part of a noh stage
holding horizontally in one's mouth; holding on the side of one's mouth
① 無闇に好きなこと。
using horizontal characters in vertical writing
transversal; lateral stripes
something wider than it is high; artwork with a horizontal aspect (e.g. scroll)
bubo (inflamed swelling in a gland)
throwing sideways
sideways
flowing into the black market
conveyance (of goods, materials, etc.); holding horizontally (e.g. a smartphone)
sleeping on one's side; lying on one's side
sharp-sidelong glance; glare
square pass (soccer); crossing pass; lateral pass
sidestroke (swimming)
cross member; crosspiece
spotstripe snapper (species of fish, Lutjanus ophuysenii)
conversing in a foreign language while eating; Western-style food
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)
double-width size (of text)
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)
crossing boundaries (structural, organizational, etc.)
Examples (12 in total)
I sat next to the driver.
The side of my tongue hurts.
Tom crouched down beside Mary.