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身长

shēn cháng

2-character word Traditional 身長

What 身长 means

1. height (of person)
2. length of clothing from shoulders to bottom (tailor or dressmaker's measure)

The characters in 身长

• 身shēnbody; life; oneself
• 长chánglong; (bound form) length; (bound form) strong point; forte

Example sentences

• 他上身长得呈倒三角形，站在那里看上去特帅！
  His upper body looks like it has the shape of an inverted triangle; standing there, he seems extremely handsome!

Sounds the same

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

• 伸长to stretch; to extend
• 深长profound (meaning, implications etc)