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
- —長足rapid progress; great strides
- —長波long wave
- —長征lengthy military expedition; Long March (China, 1934-1936); Long March (series of Chinese launch vehicles)
- —長径major axis
- —長剣long sword; minute hand (of a clock)
- —長座long stay
- —長途long way
- —長蛇long snake; long line (of people, etc.)
- —長軸major axis
- —長嘆deep sigh
- —長髪long hair (usu. of a man)
- —長講lengthy lecture
- —長躯tall figure
- —職長foreman
- —楽長bandmaster; conductor
- —酋長chieftain
- —郡長district headman; head county official
- —薩長Satsuma and Chōshū (clan alliance)
- —副長deputy head; deputy director; vice chief (of something); executive officer (navy)
- —長尺long (esp. of photographic film); lengthy