长城 Chángchéng

HSK level

Traditional form

長城

Part of speech

Place name / 地名 dì míng Dìmíng

长 cháng

Type

ideographic

Explanation

Pictograph of a person with long hair. The simplified character 长 cháng was adapted from the cursive form of the traditional character 長 zhǎng .

Positional decomposition

⿻？一 yī

Number of Strokes

城 chéng

Type

pictophonetic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. 土 Tǔ represents the meaning and 成 Chéng represents the sound.

Phonetic compound

成 Chéng

Semantic compound

土 Tǔ

Positional decomposition

⿰土成

Number of Strokes

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外宾 wài bīn 们 men 站 zhàn 着 zhāo 不 bù 动 dòng 约莫 yuē mo 有 yǒu 一分多 duō 钟 Zhōng 之 zhī 久 jiǔ ,张口 zhāng kǒu 凝视 níngshì 着 zhāo 这个 zhè ge 世界 shìjiè 奇迹 qíjì -- 长城 Chángchéng .

For more than one minute our foreign guests remained standing still gaping at this wonder of the world -- the Great

英国 Yīng guó 特技表演者 zhě 埃迪·基德骑 jì 摩托车 mótuōchē 飞越 fēi yuè 了 le 中国 Zhōngguó 长城 Chángchéng 。

The British stunt man Eddie Kidd jumped over the Great Wall of China on a motorcycle.

See the 5 Chinese characters that make up 长城 Chángchéng and their own compounds.

长 cháng

城 chéng

成 Chéng

戈 gē

弋 yì , 丿 piě

勹 bāo , ?

土 Tǔ

See all 8 Chinese words that contain the characters that make up the word 长城 Chángchéng in their composition.

长 cháng

张 Zhāng

涨 zhǎng

帐 zhàng , 账 zhàng , 胀 zhàng , 怅 chàng , 伥 chāng , 枨 chéng , 苌 cháng

城 chéng

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