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
- —人長chief kagura dancer (of kagura performed at the imperial palace)
- —長銀long-term credit bank; LTCB
- —弧長arc length
- —長弧long arc
- —長姉eldest sister; oldest sister
- —長跪way of sitting by placing both knees on the ground and standing upright
- —長毛longhair (e.g. cat)
- —長汀long shore
- —長詩long poem
- —翼長wing length (esp. of a bird); wingspan (esp. of an aircraft)
- —足長foot length
- —長骨long bone
- —長頭dolichocephaly
- —長角longhorn; longicorn
- —長呼lengthening a vowel (e.g. as in Kansai dialect); long sound (esp. long vowel)
- —長歌traditional Japanese poem with verses of five and seven morae repeated at least three times, usu. ending with a verse of seven; long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Kyoto in the late 16th century)
- —直長shift supervisor
- —長鼻proboscis; long nose
- —長城long (defensive) wall; Great Wall of China
- —長点dash (in Morse code)