星圖

The 長 family

長 · cháng · zhǎng chief · ㄔㄤˊ — long

Know 長 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 張、帳、賬、脹. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.

長 cháng · long長張 zhāng · sound from 長 · 82%張帳 zhàng · sound from 長 · 82%帳賬 zhàng · sound from 長 · 82%賬脹 zhàng · sound from 長 · 82%脹船長 chuánzhǎng · captain (of a boat)船長隊長 duìzhǎng · captain隊長擅長 shàncháng · to be good at擅長艦長 jiànzhǎng · commander艦長局長 júzhǎng · bureau chief局長成長 chéngzhǎng · to mature成長會長 huìzhǎng · president of a club, committee etc會長社長 shèzhǎng · president or director (of association etc)社長部長 bùzhǎng · head of a (government etc) department部長校長 xiàozhǎng · (college, university) president校長市長 shìzhǎng · mayor市長探長 tànzhǎng · (police) detective探長州長 zhōuzhǎng · governor (of a province or colony)州長院長 yuànzhǎng · the head of an institution whose name ends in 院院長

The characters

One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.

The percentage is our computed confidence that 長 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 長 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 82%.

Words this family builds

Open 長 in the map — free, no account

All 3,000 characters · $17.99 once · what’s in the full map

More families