Word embedding method based on pre-training still has some defects in the stability and the quality of low-frequency words. The authors propose a new word embedding method based on Hownet. First, based on the sememe independence assumption, all sememes of Hownet are specified in an Euclidean Space’s standard orthogonal basis to initialize all sememe vectors. Secondly, utilizing the relationship between word and sememe defined in the Hownet, each word vector representation can be regarded as a subspace projection by related sememes. Finally, a deep neural network model is put forward to learn word representations. The experimental results indicate that proposed word embedding method based on Hownet obtained comparable results in the two standard evaluation tasks including the word similarity computation and the word sense disambiguation.