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
- —級長class representative; head of class
- —軍長combat commander
- —伍長corporal
- —語長word-length; word size
- —士長leading private (JSDF)
- —師長teachers, superiors, and men of prominence
- —主長head; chief
- —助長promotion; encouragement; fostering; furtherance; unwanted help (usu. unintentionally harmful); unnecessary help; disservice
- —上長one's superior; senior; elder
- —冗長tedious; verbose; wordy; lengthy; longwinded; prolix; redundancy
- —曹長master sergeant; sergeant major (JSDF)
- —増長growing impudent; becoming arrogant; getting stuck-up; becoming more severe; increasing
- —尊長one's superiors; one's seniors
- —長駆long march
- —長辺long sides of a rectangle
- —艇長captain (of a midget submarine, torpedo boat, etc.); skipper (of a small boat); coxswain; length of a boat
- —兵長leading private (Imperial Japanese Army); leading seaman (Imperial Japanese Navy)
- —寮長dormitory leader; dormitory superintendent
- —霊長crown (of creation); apex; the best
- —伸長expansion; extension; elongation; stretching