HSK 2 · Adjectives

长 cháng “long” in Chinese

Traditional 長

What 长 means

  1. long
  2. (bound form) length
  3. (bound form) strong point
  4. forte
  5. (bound form) to be good at

Also read zhǎng: “to grow”

See the page for 长 zhǎng

How to say 长

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale长cháng2nd tone, rising

长 in a sentence

  1. 我等她好长时间了。

    Wǒ děng tā hǎo cháng shíjiān le.

    I’ve been waiting for her for a long time.

    Sentence #2318412 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他头发长长的。

    Tā tóufa chángcháng de.

    He has long hair.

    Sentence #4768211 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 要多长时间？

    Yào duō cháng shíjiān?

    How long will it take?

    Sentence #5780621 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 长 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 长 (cháng) drawn as one shape
长chánglong

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).

How to write 长

长 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

长 (cháng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 长 (cháng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 长

Words with 长

校长xiàozhǎng · principal of school长城Chángchéng · the Great Wall长江Cháng Jiāng · Yangtze River长辈zhǎngbèi · elder成长chéngzhǎng · to grow up延长yáncháng · to prolong长途chángtú · long distance生长shēngzhǎng · to grow漫长màncháng · very long擅长shàncháng · to be good at

More words: Adjectives

好玩儿hǎowánr · amusing快乐kuàilè · happy慢màn · slow快kuài · fast高gāo · tall远yuǎn · far近jìn · near贵guì · expensive

FAQs

长 (cháng) means “long” or “(bound form) length”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it cháng: cháng 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 is written 長. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 长 from the suggestions. Typing chang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
Yes. Read zhǎng, 长 means “to grow”. That reading has its own page. Read cháng, it means “long”.
长 is an HSK 2 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.