Kanji1 / 8
長 kanji
long, leader, superior, senior
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
チョウ
Kun readings
ながいおさ
Variant forms
兏镸Words with 長
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —長衫cheongsam; mandarin gown; mandarin dress
- —長吏eta (Edo period); administrator of a temple; low-ranking government official with a comparatively high salary (in medieval China)
- —周長perimeter; circumference
- —優長superior; excellent; outstanding
- —長弓longbow
- —長刀long sword
- —長春everlasting spring; China rose (Rosa chinensis); Changchun (China)
- —長声long blast of a ship's horn
- —長沙Changsha (China)
- —長枝long shoot
- —刃長length of a blade
- —徒長unproductive growth (of a plant or tree)
- —長体horizontally condensed type; font compressed by width
- —脚長leg length (welding); length of fillet weld
- —台長director (of an observatory)
- —鬢長albacore (Thunnus alalunga); longfin tuna
- —長州Chōshū; (former) Nagato Province
- —長部Dīgha Nikaya; Collection of Long Discourses
- —長衣robe; long garment
- —イ長調A major