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
- —防衛庁長官Director General of (former) Defence Agency (Defense)
- —万物の霊長the lord of creation; man; mankind
- —万里の長城Great Wall of China
- —衆議院議長speaker of the lower house
- —無用の長物useless object; deadwood; white elephant; boondoggle
- —成長を阻むto hinder the growth of (e.g. plants, someone); to hamper the growth of
- —長足の進歩rapid progress (strides)
- —長距離依存long-distance dependency (dependencies)
- —長打コースball hit toward the gap between outfielders
- —長距離電話long-distance call; trunk call
- —長距離飛行long(-range) flight
- —長距離輸送long-distance transportation; long-distance haulage
- —長距離列車long-distance train
- —急成長企業rapidly growing company
- —収益成長率revenue growth rate
- —取締役会長chairman of board of directors
- —取締役社長managing director; president of a company (US)
- —ちゃんこ長most experienced chanko cook in the sumo stable
- —高度成長期period of rapid growth (especially Japan's period of rapid economic growth after WWII)
- —経済成長期period of economic growth