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)
wicked; evil
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)
illicit love
sidelong glance; short grain (paper)
from one's side; from the side (of something); from someone unconnected; from someone uninvolved
(right at the) side; just beside
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)
interruption; interference; butting in
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
jumping sideways; flying sideways; running hurriedly (with one's body bent forward)
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
weft; woof (crosswise threads on a loom)
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
jumping sideways; flying sideways; running hurriedly (with one's body bent forward)
bar set in a horizontal position; horizontal bar
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
transverse wave; beam sea
crosscut plank; rear part of a noh stage
holding horizontally in one's mouth; holding on the side of one's mouth
being crazy about something, but not be good at it
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.