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
- —戦車長tank commander
- —長軟毛villus
- —長子音geminate consonant; geminated consonant
- —最長筋musculus longissimus
- —長歌行form of renku consisting of 48 verses
- —部門長department head; division manager; head of a department
- —骨延長bone lengthening; distraction osteogenesis
- —支部長branch manager; branch office head; director of a local chapter
- —長恨歌Song of Everlasting Sorrow (poem by Bai Juyi); Song of Everlasting Regret; Chang Hen Ge
- —水夫長boatswain
- —部課長department and section managers
- —意味深長with profound (and often hidden) meaning; pregnant with significance; meaningful; suggestive; interesting
- —一長一短(something having its) merits and demerits; advantages and disadvantages; good points and shortcomings
- —一日の長slight superiority (in knowledge, experience, ability, etc.); being slightly older
- —嬰ヘ長調F sharp major
- —応援団長leader of a cheering group; head cheerleader
- —億万長者billionaire; multimillionaire; very rich person
- —下院議長Speaker of the House (US, etc.)
- —家父長制patriarchy; system of patriarchy
- —看護婦長head nurse