Sentence #1216113 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 长城 is built
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长chánglongCháng in 长城
长 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.
Memory aidSimplified from 長, drawn from a person with long hair: long (cháng), and to grow (zhǎng).
城chéngcity walls
土earth · tǔMeaning part
成to accomplish · chéngSound part
土 hints at the meaning (earth); 成 (chéng) hints at the sound. Compare it with chéng.
How to write 长城
长 4 strokes · 城 9 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 长城 (Chángchéng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
长城 (Chángchéng) means “the Great Wall”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it Chángchéng: Cháng with a 2nd tone, then chéng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 长城 is written 長城. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type changcheng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 长城 from the suggestions. Typing changcheng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
长城 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.
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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
长Cháng2nd tone, rising
