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漫长

màn cháng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 漫長

漫长 (màn cháng) means "very long". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 漫长 means

1. very long
2. endless

The characters in 漫长

• 漫mànfree; unrestrained; to inundate
• 长chánglong; (bound form) length; (bound form) strong point; forte

Example sentences

• 漫长的一天过去了。
  A long day has passed on.
• 学习之路如此漫长。
  The road to mastery is oh so long.
• 十年是一段漫长的岁月。
  Shí nián shì yī duàn màncháng de suìyuè.
  Ten years is a really long period of time.
• 五年太漫长而无法等待。
  Five years is too long to wait.
• 二十年是一段漫长的岁月。
  èrshí nián shì yī duàn màncháng de suìyuè.
  Twenty years is a long time.
• 看来今天会是漫长的一天啊。
  Kànlai jīntiān huì shì màncháng de yī tiān a.
  Looks like today will be a long day.

Sounds the same

Read màn cháng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 慢长extremely long; unending

Where 漫长 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read màn cháng correctly.
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