丈 (zhàng): measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m), to measure, husband
丈 (zhàng) is a Chinese character meaning “measure of length, ten chinese feet (3.3 m).” Classified as HSK Level 2 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 一 (structural) and 又 (structural). It ranks #1236 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Definitions
- measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m)
- to measure
- husband
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 丈
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一落千丈 | yī luò qiān zhàng | lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom) |
| 丈母娘 | zhàng mǔ niáng | wife's mother |
| 火冒三丈 | huǒ mào sān zhàng | to get really angry |
| 大丈夫 | dà zhàng fu | a manly man |
| 姨丈 | yí zhàng | mother's sister's husband |
| 光芒万丈 | guāng máng wàn zhàng | (idiom) boundless radiance |
| 老丈人 | lǎo zhàng ren | (coll.) father-in-law (wife's father) |
| 方丈 | fāng zhang | square zhang (i.e. unit of area 10 feet square) |
| 丈量 | zhàng liáng | to measure |
| 万丈高楼平地起 | wàn zhàng gāo lóu píng dì qǐ | towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom) |
| 丈二金刚摸不着头脑 | zhàng èr jīn gāng mō bu zháo tóu nǎo | see 丈二和尚，摸不著頭腦|丈二和尚，摸不着头脑[zhang4 er4 he2 shang5 , mo1 bu5 zhao2 tou2 nao3] |
| 男子汉大丈夫 | nán zǐ hàn dà zhàng fu | (coll.) he-man |
| 无毒不丈夫 | wú dú bù zhàng fu | no poison, no great man (idiom) |
| 丈人 | zhàng rén | wife's father (father-in-law) |
| 丈二和尚，摸不着头脑 | zhàng èr hé shang , mō bu zháo tóu nǎo | lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom) |
丈 appears in 36 compound words: 22 as the first character, 44 as the last, and 33 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 丈 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (4)
Example Sentences
我丈夫是一名工程师，每天工作都很忙。
Wǒ zhàngfu shì yī míng gōngchéngshī, měitiān gōngzuò dōu hěn máng.
My husband is an engineer and is very busy with work every day.
疑丈夫出轨 泰人妻联同同事自制炸药杀“第三者...
yí zhàng fū chū guǐ tài rén qī lián tóng tóng shì zì zhì zhà yào shā dì sān zhě . . .
Suspected of her husband cheating, the Thai wife and her colleagues made homemade explosives to kill "the third party...
丈夫准备给诞下5胞胎老婆送黄金!五胞胎妈妈...
zhàng fū zhǔn bèi gěi dàn xià 5 bāo tāi lǎo pó sòng huáng jīn ! wǔ bāo tāi mā mā . . .
The husband is ready to give gold to his wife who gave birth to quintuplets! Quintuplets mom...
孕期喝了酒对宝宝有没有影响?丈夫劝酒也要承担责任吗
yùn qī hē le jiǔ duì bǎo bǎo yǒu méi yǒu yǐng xiǎng ? zhàng fū quàn jiǔ yě yāo chéng dān zé rèn ma
Does drinking alcohol during pregnancy affect the baby? Does the husband also be responsible for persuading him to drink?
...第一会”倡议把“办公桌”挪到一线 用脚步丈量民意
. . . dì yī huì chàng yì bǎ bàn gōng zhuō nuó dào yī xiàn yòng jiǎo bù zhàng liàng mín yì
... The first meeting advocated to move the "desk" to the front line and measure public opinion with footsteps
俄罗斯女婿给丈母娘磕头拜年:不是必须做,是我所能表..
é luó sī nǚ xù gěi zhàng mǔ niáng kē tóu bài nián bù shì bì xū zuò , shì wǒ suǒ néng biǎo . .
Russian son-in-law kowtowed to his mother-in-law for New Year's Eve: it's not mandatory, it's the best I can do...
寡妇为她的丈夫哀悼了很久。
Guǎfu wèi tā de zhàngfu āidào le hěn jiǔ.
The widow mourned her husband for a long time.
他被证实是个理想丈夫。
Tā bèi zhèngshí shì gè lǐxiǎng zhàngfu.
He proved to be an ideal husband.
他丈夫打算办月刊。
Tā zhàngfu dǎsuàn bàn yuèkān.
Her husband intends to bring out a new monthly magazine.
丈夫去世时她十分绝望。
Zhàngfu qùshì shí tā shífēn juéwàng.
She was in despair when her husband died.
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