長
← 167 Radical 168 (U+2FA7) 169 →
長 (U+9577) "long, grow"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	cháng
Bopomofo:	ㄔㄤˊ
Wade–Giles:	ch'ang2
Cantonese Yale:	cheung4, jeung2
Jyutping:	coeng4, zoeng2
JapaneseKana:	チョウ chō / ジョウ jō (on'yomi) なが-い naga-i (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	부 jang
Hán-Việt:	trường, trưởng, tràng
Names
Japanese name(s):	長い/ながい nagai
Hangul:	길장 gil
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Radical 168 orradical long (長部) meaning"long" or"grow" is one of the 9Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8strokes.

In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.

长, the simplified form of長, is the 83rd indexing component in theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China, with a variant form镸 and the traditional form長 listed as its associated indexing components.

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As an independent sinogram 長 is one of thekyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school inJapan. It is taught in second grade.^[1]

Look up長 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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