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延長

简延长 · 繁延長

Mandarin · pinyin yán cháng#

to prolong
to extend
to delay

Mandarin · pinyin Yán cháng#

see 延長縣 Yán cháng Xiàn

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延: yán · delay, postpone, defer
長: zhǎng · long; length; excel in; leader; Kangxi radical 168
长: zhǎng · long; length; excel in; leader

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2–2 · yan2 chang2

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jin4 coeng4

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verb

to lengthen; to extend; to prolong

adj

(literary, of time) long

name

(～縣) Yanchang (a county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China)

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