| 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) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
12 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
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
- Korean:
- jang
Spanish
- largo
- jefe
- sobresaliente
Portuguese
- Longo
- ambicionar
- líder
- chefe
French
- long
- chef
| 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 |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1584 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 嘆 【タン】 sigh, grief, lamentation
- 嘆願 【タンガン】 entreaty, appeal, petition
- 詠嘆 【エイタン】 exclamation, admiration
- 慨嘆 【ガイタン】 deploring, lamentation, regret, complaint
Kun reading compounds
- 嘆く 【なげく】 to lament, to grieve, to regret, to deplore
- 嘆かわしい 【なげかわしい】 lamentable, deplorable, regrettable, sad, wretched
Readings
- Korean:
- tan
Spanish
- deplorar
- lamentar
- suspirar
- gemir
- afligirse
Portuguese
- suspiro
- lamento
- pesar
French
- se lamenter
- soupirer
- gémir
- peine
| 1566 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1594 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 974 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1292 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1143 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1246 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1313 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1436 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 310 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 773 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 455 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 577 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1593 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 4138P | Morohashi |
| 630 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 872 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1579 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1702 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1612 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3763 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3d10.8 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-3-10 | SKIP code |
| 6403.4 | Four corner code |
| 1-35-18 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 5606 | Unicode hex code |