Chinese symbol for “protracted”
旷日持久
kuàng rì chí jiǔ
Traditional: 曠日持久
protracted (idiom); long and drawn-out
The closest CC-CEDICT match for protracted is 旷日持久 (kuàng rì chí jiǔ), defined as: protracted (idiom); long and drawn-out.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “protracted”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 旷日持久.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 空旷 (空曠) | kōng kuàng | spacious and empty; void |
| 旷野 (曠野) | kuàng yě | wilderness |
| 心旷神怡 (心曠神怡) | xīn kuàng shén yí | lit. heart untroubled, spirit pleased (idiom); carefree and relaxed |
| 旷工 (曠工) | kuàng gōng | to skip work; absence without leave |
| 旷课 (曠課) | kuàng kè | to play truant; to cut classes |
| 今日 | jīn rì | today |
| 日子 | rì zi | day; a (calendar) date |
| 日常 | rì cháng | day-to-day; daily; everyday |
| 支持 | zhī chí | to be in favor of; to support |
| 不久 | bù jiǔ | not long (after); before too long |
See also: Japanese symbol for “protracted”.
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.