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
- —長期予報long-range forecast (usu. weather)
- —参謀総長chief of the general staff; chief of staff (esp. US)
- —砂の長城Great Wall of Sand (Chinese land reclamation project in the Spratly Islands)
- —長期保存long-term storage; long-term preservation
- —大学学長president (of a university); chancellor; vice-chancellor
- —国連総長Secretary-General of the United Nations
- —長距離砲long-distance artillery; long-range gun; long-range rocket launcher; long-ball hitter; power hitter
- —長期使用long-term use (e.g. of a drug); prolonged use; long-time service
- —成長因子(cell) growth factor
- —一日署長chief for the day (PR event in which a celebrity heads a police, fire, etc. department for a day)
- —変ロ長調B flat major
- —変イ長調A flat major
- —延長前半first half of extra time (in soccer)
- —延長後半second half of extra time (in soccer)
- —長音記号long-vowel mark; macron
- —成長記録record of growth
- —社長令嬢company president's daughter
- —結晶成長crystal growth
- —不老長生perpetual youth and longevity; long life without growing old
- —長幼の序hierarchy based on age; custom of elders first