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Hanzi Character Search: 丈

4E08

丈
unit of length equal 3.3 meters; gentleman, man, husband
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 2 Total Strokes 3
Mandarin reading zhàng Cantonese reading zoeng6
Japanese on reading jou chou Japanese kun reading take dake
Korean reading cang Vietnamese reading trượng

CEDICT Entries:

   [ zhàng èr shang bu zhaó toú naǒ ]    lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom), fig. at a total loss
   [ zhàng èr jīn gāng bu zhaó toú naǒ ]    see 丈二和尚,摸不著頭腦|丈二和尚,摸不着头脑[zhang4 er4 he2 shang5 , mo1 bu5 zhao2 tou2 nao3]
⇒    [ zhàng xiàn ]    Guzhang County in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州[Xiang1 xi1 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1]
⇒    [ shī zhàng ]    teacher's husband
⇒    [ shù gaō qiān zhàng luò guī gēn ]    see 樹高千丈,葉落歸根|树高千丈,叶落归根[shu4 gao1 qian1 zhang4 , ye4 luo4 gui1 gen1]
⇒    [ shù gaō qiān zhàng luò guī gēn ]    fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb), fig. everything has its ancestral home, in old age, an expatriate returns home
⇒    [ zhàng fu ]    no poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.
⇒    [ nán hàn zhàng fu ]    (coll.) he-man
⇒    [ wàn zhàng ]    lit. ten thousand fathoms, fig. extremely high or deep, lofty, bottomless
⇒    [ wàn zhàng gaō loú píng ]    towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom), great oaks from little acorns grow

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