縦

Meaning

縦 centers on the vertical dimension: height, length, or the up-down axis. The self-indulgent and wayward senses are extended from the idea of letting things go their own way, like a loose vertical thread.

• 縦たて
  N4

  the vertical; height

• 操縦そうじゅう
  N1

  steering; piloting; flying; control; operation; handling

• 縦断じゅうだん

  running through (north-south); cutting across; travelling across

• 縦長たてなが

  oblong; vertical writing style (e.g. on envelopes); portrait orientation

• 縦横じゅうおう

  length and width; length and breadth; lengthwise and crosswise; vertical and horizontal; the four cardinal points

• 縦横たてよこ

  length and breadth; length and width

• 縦走じゅうそう

  stretching out (in a longitudinal direction); running; traversing

• 縦横無尽じゅうおうむじん

  freely; right and left; as one pleases

• 縦列じゅうれつ

  column; file; (vertical) line

• 縦縞たてじま
  N3

  vertical stripes; striped fabric

• 縦貫じゅうかん

  running through; traversal

• 縦しやよしや

  supposing that; even if

• 縦陣じゅうじん

  column

• 縦糸たていと

  (weaving) warp

• 縦覧じゅうらん

  inspection; unrestricted viewing; reading

• 縦隊じゅうたい

  column

• 縦書きたてがき
  N3

  writing vertically; vertical writing

• 縦割りたてわり

  dividing vertically; vertical split; top-to-bottom sectioning; division into sections; splitting lengthwise

• 縦軸たてじく

  vertical axis; vertical line

• 無線操縦むせんそうじゅう

  radio control

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