Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
long, grow 長 (镸)
Parts:
Variants:
long, leader, superior, senior
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

14 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:
广
Variants:
calendar, almanac
Kun:
こよみ
On:
レキリャク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1765 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 暦 【コヨミ】 calendar, almanac
  • 暦年 【レキネン】 calendar year, civil year, time, year after year
  • 還暦 【カンレキ】 kanreki, one's 60th birthday (or 61st in the traditional age reckoning system) when one has lived through a full sexagenary cycle
  • 改暦 【カイレキ】 calendar reform, adoption of a new calendar system, new calendar (for a new year), new year
  • 暦応 【リャクオウ】 Ryakuō era (of the Northern Court; 1338.8.28-1342.4.27), Rekiō era
  • 暦仁 【リャクニン】 Ryakunin era (1238.11.23-1239.2.7)
  • 永暦 【エイリャク】 Eiryaku era (1160.1.10-1161.9.4)
  • 康暦 【コウリャク】 Kōryaku era (of the Northern Court; 1379.3.22-1381.2.24)

Kun reading compounds

  • 暦 【こよみ】 calendar, almanac
  • 暦改正 【こよみかいせい】 calendar reform

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
li4
Korean:
ryeog

Spanish

  • calendario
  • almanaque

Portuguese

  • calendário
  • almanaque

French

  • calendrier
  • almanach
1927 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1793 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
833 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1383 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1411 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2235 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1534 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1635 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1720 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
980 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3747 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1912 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2599 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
217 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14111P Morohashi
3018 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2507 New Nelson (John Haig)
213 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
226 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1707 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3378 2001 Kanji
2p12.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-12 SKIP code
7126.9 Four corner code
1-46-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
66a6 Unicode hex code