横断

おうだん
crossing

Reading

Readingおうだん
N3 VocabJLPT N3
Kanji横断

Meanings

  1. crossing
  1. crossing (a road, river, etc.)n.vs.vi.
  2. cutting through (e.g. of a river through a town)
  3. cutting across
  4. intersecting (e.g. a railway track)
  5. crossing (east-west)n.vs.vi.
  6. traversing
  7. travelling across
  8. flying across (e.g. the Pacific)
  9. sailing across
  10. cutting horizontallyn.vs.vt.
  11. sectioning laterally

Synonyms

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Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

横断歩道の白いところ以外は地獄な。
おうだんほどうのしろいところいがいはじごくな。Anywhere except the white part of the crosswalk is hell.
横断歩道で戸惑っているおばあさんを助けていたら遅刻しました。
おうだんほどうでとまどっているおばあさんをたすけていたらちこくしました。When I helped an old lady who was confused at a crosswalk, I was late.
横断歩道で手を上げる人は誰も居ません。
おうだんほどうでてをあげるひとはだれもいません。No one raises their hand at a crosswalk.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

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Practice Writing

Practice Writing 横断

The whole word, one canvas per character — with a guide, then twice from memory, every character checked