(zhàng) - a measure of length; senior male (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
zhàngTraditional: 丈
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Translation
a measure of length; senior male (bound morpheme)
Word origin
An ideographic character showing a hand (又) holding a measuring stick (十). It named an old unit of length and, by extension, a senior man.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- 又 (hand) + 十 (measuring stick)
Stroke order
丈
Examples
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Her husband is a doctor.
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Husband and wife cook together.
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My husband works abroad.
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This piece of cloth is three zhang long.
棵树。
This tree is ten zhang tall.
丈 (zhàng) is an old unit of length and a respectful term for an elder male. Today it survives chiefly in 丈夫 (zhàng fu), husband.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 丈.
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