緯 — kanji meaning “horizontal”
緯
horizontal, woof, left & right, (parallels of) latitude, prediction
- Meanings
- horizontal, woof, left & right, (parallels of) latitude, prediction
- On'yomi
- イ (i)
- Kun'yomi
- よこいと、ぬき
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #1430 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 120
- Chinese reading
- wěi — Chinese character page
Words with 緯
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 経緯 | けいい keii | details; particulars; sequence of events |
| 緯度 | いど ido | latitude |
| 北緯 | ほくい hokui | north latitude |
| 南緯 | なんい nan'i | southern latitude |
| 経緯 | たてぬき tatenuki | warp and weft; warp and woof |
| 経緯 | いきさつ ikisatsu | circumstances; sequence of events; how things got this way |
| 高緯度 | こういど kouido | high latitudes |
| 緯線 | いせん isen | parallel; latitude line |
| 経緯儀 | けいいぎ keiigi | theodolite |
| 黄緯 | こうい koui | celestial latitude; ecliptic latitude |
| 緯書 | いしょ isho | book of omens appended to Confucian Chinese classics |
| 緯度変化 | いどへんか idohenka | latitude variation |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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