Radical 168
| 長 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 長 (U+9577) "long, grow" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | cháng | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄔㄤˊ | |
| Wade–Giles: | ch'ang2 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | cheung4, jeung2 | |
| Jyutping: | coeng4, zoeng2 | |
| Japanese Kana: | 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 | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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Stroke order of the simplified form 长
Radical 168 or radical long (長部) meaning "long" or "grow" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
长, the simplified form of 長, is the 83rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with a variant form 镸 and the traditional form 長 listed as its associated indexing components.
Evolution[]
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters[]
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 長 镸 长SC (=長) |
| +3 | 镹 |
| +4 | 镺 |
| +5 | 镻 |
| +8 | 镼 |
| +12 | 镽 |
| +14 | 镾 |
Literature[]
- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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