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長

8 strokes
Radical:
long, grow 長 (镸)
Parts:
長
Variants:
兏 镸
long, leader, superior, senior
Kun:
なが.い、 おさ
On:
チョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
12 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 長 【チョウ】 head, chief, leader, elder, merit, strong point, superiority, major
  • 長官 【チョウカン】 secretary (government), director, chief
  • 体長 【タイチョウ】 length (of an animal), body length
  • 医長 【イチョウ】 medical director, chief physician

Kun reading compounds

  • 長い 【ながい】 long (distance, length), long (time), protracted, prolonged
  • 長居 【ながい】 long visit, overstaying
  • 長 【おさ】 head, chief, leader, the greatest (of all the ...)
  • 【オサガメ】 leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
  • 田長 【たおさ】 master of the rice field, chief farmer, lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
  • 死出田長 【しでたおさ】 lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

Readings

Japanese names:
お、 おしゃ、 たかし、 たけ、 な、 は、 ひさ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chang2, zhang3
Korean:
jang

Spanish

  • largo
  • jefe
  • sobresaliente

Portuguese

  • Longo
  • ambicionar
  • líder
  • chefe

French

  • long
  • chef
116 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
189 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
173 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
25 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4938 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
155 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
95 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
939 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.20 Japanese for Busy People
95 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
95 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
89 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1837 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3163 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1626 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2212 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1939 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41100 Morohashi
2556 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6379 New Nelson (John Haig)
1920 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2070 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
90 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
161 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3465 2001 Kanji
0a8.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-3 SKIP code
4-8-1 SKIP code
7173.2 Four corner code
1-36-25 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9577 Unicode hex code

禄

12 strokes
Radical:
sign 示 (礻)
Parts:
ヨ 水 礼 隶
Variants:
祿
fief, allowance, pension, grant, happiness
Kun:
さいわ.い、 ふち
On:
ロク
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2126 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 禄 【ロク】 stipend, reward
  • 禄高 【ロクダカ】 (amount of a samurai's) stipend
  • 元禄 【ゲンロク】 Genroku era (1688.9.30-1704.3.13)
  • 永禄 【エイロク】 Eiroku era (1558.2.28-1570.4.23)

Readings

Japanese names:
とし、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lu4
Korean:
rog

Spanish

  • feliz
  • contento
  • feudo
  • sueldo de funcionario

Portuguese

French

3250 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1998 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1589 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2179 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1264 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
684 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
915 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
24741P Morohashi
1002 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4096 New Nelson (John Haig)
2602 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2648 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4e8.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-8 SKIP code
3723.2 Four corner code
1-47-29 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7984 Unicode hex code