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
- —刑務所長prison warden
- —経済成長economic growth
- —高度成長rapid economic growth (esp. that of Japan in the post-WWII period)
- —合唱隊長choir leader
- —国防長官Secretary of Defence (Defense)
- —市場成長market growth
- —事業部長senior executive manager
- —事務局長secretary-general; director-general; executive director; executive secretary
- —事務総長secretary-general; director
- —事務長官chief secretary
- —修道院長head of a monastic institution; abbot; prior; abbess; prioress; mother superior
- —上級曹長sergeant major
- —成長曲線logistic curve; growth curve
- —千万長者multimillionaire; billionaire
- —第一部長assistant chief of staff, g1
- —第三部長assistant chief of staff, g3
- —第二部長assistant chief of staff, g2
- —担当課長section manager
- —担当部長senior manager; director; person below the department head with responsibility for a particular area
- —調査部長assistant chief of staff, g2