Characters › 长
4 strokes · radical 长 · HSK 2 · traditional 長
8 strokes · HSK 2 · simplified 长
A way to remember it
Long hair on a figure leaning on a stick. Read cháng it is long; read zhǎng it is to grow, and an elder — the same picture, seen in time instead of space.
A picture that makes the shape stick — not a claim about the character’s history.
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Shown in simplified. Converting whole words needs one-to-many knowledge this site does not have — 发 is 發 in 出发 but 髮 in 头发 — and a confidently wrong word would be worse than an honest simplified one.
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cháng — long
Radical 长 · 4 strokes · HSK 2 · traditional 長
8 strokes · HSK 2 · simplified 长
A way to remember itLong hair on a figure leaning on a stick. Read cháng it is long; read zhǎng it is to grow, and an elder — the same picture, seen in time instead of space.