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
- —出席部長assistant section or department manager
- —部長代理deputy manager; assistant manager; acting manager
- —業務課長head of business department
- —延長線上extension of a straight line; (conclusion) following as an extension of (an argument)
- —延長保育extended-hours childcare (in day-care centers for parents working into the night)
- —重厚長大heavy, thick, long, and big (products, esp. industrial); massive and heavy; heavy (industry)
- —消長盛衰prosperity and decay; rise and fall; ebb and flow; vicissitudes (of fortune)
- —成長小説novel of formation (education); novel of character development; novel which traces the intellectual, moral, spiritual or social development of a young person; Bildungsroman
- —増長天狗braggart; boaster; self-conceited person
- —長講一席(make) a long talk (discourse, lecture)
- —長尺映画long film (movie)
- —長者番付list of the richest people; billionaires list
- —長汀曲浦long stretch of winding beach
- —天地長久heaven and earth are eternal
- —政調会長chairman of (party) policy bureau; policy chief
- —無明長夜the long night of spiritual darkness
- —消防署長fire captain; fire marshal
- —人事課長head of personnel department
- —校長先生school principal; school headmaster; school headmistress
- —採長補短compensating for one's shortcomings by incorporating others' strong points