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
- —長音long sound; prolonged sound; long vowel
- —長物something long; useless things; white elephant; boondoggle
- —長兄eldest brother
- —長江Yangtze River (China); Changjiang River; long river
- —長命long life
- —長逝death; passing
- —長針long hand; minute hand
- —長幼young and old
- —長石feldspar
- —消長prosperity and decay; prosperity and decline; rise and fall; ups and downs; ebb and flow; waxing and waning
- —長夜long night; all night
- —族長patriarch; head of a family
- —番長leader of a group of juvenile delinquents
- —深長profound
- —長上one's elders or superiors
- —長子eldest child; oldest child; first child; eldest son; oldest son
- —長文long sentence; long piece of writing (e.g. passage, letter, article, telegram)
- —長円ellipse; oval
- —長生longevity; eternal life; cycle that can be repeated indefinitely and neither group dies
- —長考thinking (about a matter) for a long time; contemplating for a long time; lengthy consideration; pondering