long; chief

Builds 66 distinct compound words — ranked #68 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: チョウ
訓 kun: なが.い

Long in space or time, and by extension the senior person. 社長 a company president, 成長 growth, 校長 a headteacher.

The ten most common compounds built on 長. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

66compounds built

1,437times those words occur

#59by productivity alone

#113by how often it turns up

Where 長 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 長. Each one opens its own map.

生life; born; raw長生き#7 間interval; between長い間#12 年year長年#26 成become; achieve成長#67 社company; shrine; society社長#81

Words built on 長

長いながい460 uses

長い間133 uses

社長しゃちょう107 uses

成長せいちょう99 uses

議長ぎちょう77 uses

市長しちょう67 uses

長年ながねん47 uses

長生きながいき41 uses

校長こうちょう30 uses

身長しんちょう28 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.