Kanji1 / 3
丈 kanji
length, ten shaku, measure, Mr., Ms., height, stature, all (one has), only, that's all, merely
- JLPT level
- Not on the lists
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 3
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ジョウ
Kun readings
たけだけ
Words with 丈
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —心丈夫secure; reassuring
- —黄八丈yellow silk cloth with a dark striped or checkered pattern (from Hachijo island)
- —八丈絹plain-woven silk cloth produced on Hachijo Island (dyed with botanical pigments found on the island)
- —八丈縞striped Hachijo silk cloth
- —八丈桑Morus kagayamae (species of mulberry)
- —大丈夫great man; fine figure of a man
- —方丈記An Account of My Hut (1212 collection of essays in the Buddhist eremitic tradition, by Kamo no Chome); The Ten Foot Square Hut
- —気炎万丈in high spirits; talking big
- —黄塵万丈rising cloud of (yellowish) dust
- —八丈宝貝chocolate cowry (Mauritia mauritiana); humpback cowry
- —八丈方言Hachijō dialects; Hachijō language
- —百丈清規Pure Rules of Huaihai (set of monastery regulations said to have been written by Baizhang Huaihai)
- —白髪三千丈many years of stress and anxiety (as would cause one's hair to grow white); three-thousand jō of white hair (nine kilometers)
- —千丈の堤も蟻の一穴より崩れるa small leak will sink a great ship
- —気焔万丈in high spirits; talking big