长 · zhǎng
long; length; excel in; leader
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
long; length; excel in; leader
- Mandarin
- zhǎng
- Cantonese
- coeng4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+957F
- Radical
- 长 · 168
- Strokes
- 4 · Unihan
- Residual
- 0
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
4 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 长
Character connections
History & distinctions
Related forms
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- zhǎng
- kCantonese
- coeng4
- kDefinition
- long; length; excel in; leader
- kTotalStrokes
- 4
- kRSUnicode
- 168'.0
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+9577
- kTGH
- 2013:127
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- cháng 0121.040 · zhǎng 1456.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- cháng 038.110 · zhǎng 466.110
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- zhǎng(1879) cháng(1179)