You must be careful of the traffic when you cross the street.
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横
Traditional: 橫
héng
HSK 3.0 · 6HSK 2.0 · 5
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héng · waang4 (Jyutping)
- 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
hèng · waang4 (Jyutping)
- harsh and unreasonable
- unexpected
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Character breakdown
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
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