长

長traditional

HSK 2#246 by frequencyradical 长

cháng["a","v","ad","g"]

long; length; forever; always; constantly

zhǎng["a","v","ad","g"]

to grow; to develop; to increase; to enhance; chief; head; elder

Examples

他写长信。

He's writing a long letter.

说来话长。

It's a long story.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.