Chinese symbol for “tl”

太长不看

tài cháng bù kàn

Traditional: 太長不看

(Internet slang) TL;DR

The closest CC-CEDICT match for tl is 太长不看 (tài cháng bù kàn), defined as: (Internet slang) TL;DR.

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Characters and stroke order

太 tài

very, too much; big; extreme

radical 37 ⼤ · 4 strokes

长 cháng

long, lasting; to excel in

radical 168 ⾧ · 4 strokes

不 bù

no, not, un-; negative prefix

radical 1 ⼀ · 4 strokes

看 kàn

to look, to see; to examine, to scrutinize

radical 109 ⽬ · 9 strokes

Traditional forms

長 cháng

Related words

Other words that share a character with 太长不看.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
太阳 (太陽)	tài yang	sun; sunlight; sunshine
太空	tài kōng	outer space
太太	tài tai	married woman; Mrs.
太子	tài zǐ	crown prince
太阳能 (太陽能)	tài yáng néng	solar energy
老太太	lǎo tài tai	elderly lady (respectful); esteemed mother
增长 (增長)	zēng zhǎng	to grow; to increase
长期 (長期)	cháng qī	long-term; for a protracted period
不是	bù shì	no; is not
看到	kàn dào	to see

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.