Chinese symbol for “length”
长度
cháng dù
Traditional: 長度
length
The closest CC-CEDICT match for length is 长度 (cháng dù), defined as: length.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “length”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 篇幅 | piān fu | length (of a piece of writing); space occupied on a printed page |
| 长短 (長短) | cháng duǎn | length; accident; mishap |
| 长 (長) | cháng | long; (bound form) length |
| 袤 | mào | length; distance from north to south |
| 梴 | chān | length (of a tree or beam); long |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 长度.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 增长 (增長) | zēng zhǎng | to grow; to increase |
| 长期 (長期) | cháng qī | long-term; for a protracted period |
| 部长 (部長) | bù zhǎng | head of a (government etc) department; section chief |
| 成长 (成長) | chéng zhǎng | to mature; to grow |
| 市长 (市長) | shì zhǎng | mayor |
| 家长 (家長) | jiā zhǎng | head of a household; family head |
| 制度 | zhì dù | system (e.g. political, adminstrative etc); institution |
| 程度 | chéng dù | degree; level; extent |
See also: Japanese symbol for “length”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.