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常

cháng

Traditional: 常

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Translation

often, usual, common

Stroke order

Stroke order for 常

常

Examples

歌gē。

I really love this song.

。

Everything is normal.

班bān。

He often works overtime.

图tú馆guǎn。

He often goes to the library to read.

周zhōu末mò。

We frequently meet at weekends.

常 (cháng) means often or ordinary. It is the workhorse inside 非常 (very), 经常 (frequently), and 正常 (normal), where it marks the baseline against which something is measured.

Related words

非常

extremely, very, unusual

经常

often, frequently

正常

normal, regular, ordinary

Appears in 3 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 常.

非常fēi chángextremely, very, unusual正常zhèng chángnormal, regular, ordinary经常jīng chángoften, frequently

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This word is part of lesson 102.