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丈

zhàng

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 character level 2 Character

What 丈 means

1. measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m)
2. to measure
3. husband
4. polite appellation for an older male

Example sentences

• 他是我丈夫。
  He is my husband.
• 她恨她的丈夫。
  She hated her husband.
• 她与丈夫离婚。
  She divorced her husband.
• 你丈夫叫什幺？
  What's your husband's name?
• 我丈夫是教授。
  My husband is a professor.
• 我的丈夫在哪里？
  Where's my husband?

Words starting with 丈

• 丈夫zhàng fuhusband
• 丈母娘zhàng mǔ niángwife's mother; mother-in-law
• 丈量zhàng liángto measure; measurement
• 丈人zhàng rénwife's father (father-in-law); old man
• 丈母zhàng mǔwife's mother; mother-in-law
• 丈八蛇矛zhàng bā shé máoancient spear-like weapon 18 Chinese feet 尺
• 丈二和尚，摸不着头脑zhàng èr hé shang , mō bu zháo tóu nǎolit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom); fig. at a total loss
• 丈二金刚摸不着头脑zhàng èr Jīn gāng mō bu zháo tóu nǎosee 丈二和尚，丈二和尚，摸不着头脑

Words containing 丈

• 万丈wàn zhànglit. ten thousand fathoms; fig. extremely high or deep; lofty
• 方丈fāng zhangsquare zhang (i.e. unit of area 10 feet square); monastic room 10 feet square…
• 大丈夫dà zhàng fua manly man; a man of character
• 老丈人lǎo zhàng ren(colloquial) father-in-law (wife's father)
• 火冒三丈huǒ mào sān zhàngto get really angry
• 一落千丈yī luò qiān zhànglit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom); fig. (of business, popularity etc) to…
• 公丈gōng zhàngdecameter
• 姐丈jiě zhàngolder sister's husband; brother-in-law
• 市丈shì zhàngzhang (Chinese unit of length equal to 3⅓ meters)
• 师丈shī zhàngteacher's husband
• 老丈lǎo zhàngsir (respectful form of address for an old man)
• 无毒不丈夫wú dú bù zhàng funo poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.
• 男子汉大丈夫nán zǐ hàn dà zhàng fu(colloquial) he-man
• 古丈县Gǔ zhàng XiànGuzhang, a county in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州
• 叔丈人shū zhàng rénwife's uncle
• 叔丈母shū zhàng mǔwife's aunt
• 姑丈gū zhànghusband of paternal aunt
• 姨丈yí zhàngmother's sister's husband; husband of mother's sister
• 姊丈zǐ zhàngolder sister's husband
• 岳丈yuè zhàngfather-in-law (wife's father)
• 光芒万丈guāng máng wàn zhàng(idiom) boundless radiance; splendor
• 大丈夫能屈能伸dà zhàng fu néng qū néng shēnA leader can submit or can stand tall as required.; ready to give and take; flexible
• 万丈高楼平地起wàn zhàng gāo lóu píng dì qǐtowering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom)…
• 树高千丈，叶落归根shù gāo qiān zhàng , yè luò guī gēnfig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots…

Characters that look like 丈

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 文wénlanguage; culture; writing
• 支zhīto support; to sustain; to erect

Sounds the same

Read zhàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 账account; bill; debt
• 障to block; to hinder; to obstruct
• 帐(bound form) curtain; tent; canopy; variant of 账
• 胀to swell; to distend; to expand; swollen; bloated
• 仗weaponry; to hold (a weapon); to wield
• 杖a staff; a rod; cane
• 涨to swell; to distend
• 瘴malaria; miasma
• 嶂cliff; range of peaks
• 幛hanging scroll
• 瞕cataract in the eye
• 粀decameter (old)

Where 丈 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 2 Characters · Set 21 (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhàng correctly.
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