Illustration: On a low bench outside a neighborhood bakery, an elderly customer sits with a small shopping bag on their lap. A large neighborhood cat occupies the very next place on the bench, upright and facing the same direction, its shoulder almost touching the customer's elbow.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

横よこ

yoko

beside, next to

Example sentences

  1. 家いえの横よこに回まわってください。

    Please go around to the side of the house.

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  2. あの人ひとは眼めの横よこにほくろがある。

    That person has a mole at the side of his eye.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 私わたしは袋ふくろをいすの上うえか横よこに置おいた。

    I put the bag on or beside the chair.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 横

  • 横sideways; sideOnオウKunよこ

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