Radical 168
Radical 168 or radical long () meaning "long" or "" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. , the simplified form of , is the 83rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with a variant form  and the traditional form  listed as its associated indexing components. Evolution

Derived characters

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram 長 is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is taught in second grade

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Unihan Database - U+9577

Kanji
Kyōiku kanji
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