| 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, elder, the greatest of all, the most excellent
- 長亀 【おさがめ】 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 grade 2
JLPT level N5
33 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 間 【カン】 interval, period of time, among, between, inter-, good opportunity, chance, estrangement, discord, alienation, spy, secret agent
- 間隔 【カンカク】 space, interval, space character, whitespace
- 短期間 【タンキカン】 short term, short time
- 右中間 【ウチュウカン】 between right and center fielders (centre)
- 間 【ケン】 ken (6 shaku, approx. 1.818 m), counter used to number the gaps between pillars
- 間数 【ケンスウ】 number of ken (in length or breadth)
- 世間 【セケン】 world, society, people, the public
- 六百間 【ロッピャッケン】 roppyakken (type of hanafuda game)
Kun reading compounds
- 間 【あいだ】 space (between), gap, interval, distance, time (between), pause, break, span (temporal or spatial), stretch, period (while), relationship (between, among), members (within, among), due to, because of
- 間中 【あいだじゅう】 during
- 候間 【そうろうあいだ】 as ...
- ついこの間 【ついこのあいだ】 just the other day, quite recently
- 間 【ま】 time, pause, space, room
- 間際 【まぎわ】 the point just before, the point of doing, the verge of happening
- 茶の間 【ちゃのま】 living room (Japanese-style)
- 床の間 【とこのま】 tokonoma (alcove where art or flowers are displayed)
- 間 【あいだ】 space (between), gap, interval, distance, time (between), pause, break, span (temporal or spatial), stretch, period (while), relationship (between, among), members (within, among), due to, because of
- 間中 【あいだじゅう】 during
- 波間 【なみま】 interval between the waves, gap between waves
- 幕間 【まくあい】 intermission (between acts), interlude
Readings
- Japanese names:
- ちか、 は、 はざ、 はし
- Korean:
- gan
Spanish
- intervalo
- espacio
- habitación
Portuguese
- intervalo
- espaço
French
- intervalle
- espace
| 58 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 100 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 92 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 27 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 4949 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 174 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 96 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1822 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.7 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 43 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 43 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 161 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1841 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 4122 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2094 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2836 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1634 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 41249 | Morohashi |
| 3323 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 6391 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1620 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1747 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 31 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 215 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3878 | 2001 Kanji |
| 8e4.3 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 3-8-4 | SKIP code |
| 7760.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-20-54 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 9593 | Unicode hex code |