Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- zhàng
English
- unit of length equal 3.3 meters
- measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m)
- gentleman, man, husband
- to measure
- husband
- polite appellation for an older male
- used in certain male kinship terms
- a measurement unit of length in Chinese standard; one 丈 is equal to 3.33 metres
粵語
- 表示男性叔侄關係
- 中國舊時長度單位，一丈等於十尺
Stroke order
As a component in
Words containing 丈
- 丈夫zoeng6 fu1
husband
- 大丈夫daai6 zoeng6 fu1
a manly man
- 姨丈ji4 zoeng2
mother's sister's husband
- 方丈fong1 zoeng6
one of three fabled islands in Eastern sea, abode of immortals
- 岳丈ngok6 zoeng6
father-in-law (wife's father)
- 姑丈gu1 zoeng2
husband of paternal aunt
- 市丈si5 zoeng6
zhang (Chinese unit of length equal to 3⅓ meters)
- 老丈lou5 zoeng6
sir (respectful form of address for an old man)
- 公丈gung1 zoeng6
decameter
- 師丈si1 zoeng6
teacher's husband
- 光芒萬丈gwong1 mong4 maan6 zoeng6
(idiom) boundless radiance; splendor
- 丈人zoeng6 jan4
wife's father (father-in-law)
- 丈量zoeng6 loeng4
to measure
- 萬丈maan6 zoeng6
lit. ten thousand fathoms
- 古丈gu2 zoeng6
see 古丈縣|古丈县[Gu3 zhang4 Xian4]
- 丈母zoeng6 mou5
wife's mother; mother-in-law
- 丈母娘zoeng6 mou5 noeng4
wife's mother; mother-in-law
- 陣丈zan6 zoeng6
- 姐丈ze2 zoeng6
older sister's husband
- 姊丈zi2 zoeng6
older sister's husband
- 叔丈母suk1 zoeng6 mou5
wife's aunt
- 無毒不丈夫mou4 duk6 bat1 zoeng6 fu1
no poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.
- 一落千丈jat1 lok6 cin1 zoeng6
lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)
- 八十丈baat3 sap6 zoeng6