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
- —一家の長head of a family
- —正副議長speaker and deputy speaker; chair and vice-chair; president and vice-president (of the senate, council, etc.)
- —長刀一枝one long sword
- —変ホ長調E flat major
- —家長制度patriarchal system
- —学生部長dean of students
- —司令長官Commander-in-Chief; C-in-C
- —市長選挙mayoral election
- —成長過程growth process
- —成長産業growth industry
- —名誉会長honorary president
- —カリ長石potash feldspar
- —社長命令order from the company president
- —成長戦略growth strategy
- —審判部長head judge
- —長身痩躯tall and lean figure; tall and slender figure
- —飛耳長目sharp eyes and ears used for collecting information far and wide; having the acumen and shrewd discernment gained by widely-collected information; being well-versed on a subject; books which broaden our knowledge
- —不老長寿perpetual youth and longevity
- —武運長久everlasting fortune in battle; continued luck in war
- —蜿蜿長蛇long and serpentine (line, queue, etc.)