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head of a (government etc) department / section chief / section head / secretary / minister / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 3
(college, university) president / headmaster / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 2
class monitor / squad leader / team leader / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
to grow; to increase
HSK 3
captain / team leader / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
to mature / to grow / growth
HSK 3
regimental command / head of a delegation / group buy organizer; group-buying coordinator
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *長* | 長* | *長
long / (bound form) length / (bound form) strong point; forte / (bound form) to be good at / (literary) surplus; spare (Taiwan pr. [zhang4])
HSK 2
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  *長* | 長* | *長
chief / head / elder / to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance
HSK 2
head of an institute etc
HSK 3
military division level commander / teacher
HSK 7-9
the head of an institution whose name ends in ; chair of a board; university president; college dean; premier of the Republic of China / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
very long / endless
HSK 5
mayor
HSK 2
factory director
HSK 5
head of a household / family head / patriarch / parent or guardian of a child
HSK 2
to grow / to grow up / to be brought up
HSK 3
to prolong / to extend / to delay
HSK 4
group leader
HSK 2
bureau chief / CL: , 個|个
HSK 5
bureau chief
HSK 6
specialty / special knowledge or ability
HSK 7-9
captain (of a boat) / skipper
HSK 6
to be good at; to be expert in
HSK 7-9
head of a committee
president of the association
Minister of Education / Director of Education Department
courtesy name of 關羽|关羽
district chief
proficiency in a particular field (idiom) / skill in a specialized area (idiom)
HSK 7-9
high as the mountain and long as the river (idiom); fig. noble and far-reaching
governor (of a province or colony) / (US) state governor / (Australian) state premier
department head / section chief
HSK 6
chairman of the board of directors
HSK 7-9
economic growth
president of a club, committee etc
HSK 6
personal strength / one's special ability or strong points
HSK 7-9
long and tedious / redundant / superfluous / supernumerary / verbose (of writing)
HSK 7-9
enduring while the world lasts (idiom, from Laozi); eternal / for ever and ever (of friendship, hate etc) / also written 天長地久|天长地久
to stretch; to extend
(idiom) (of people) born and raised in the locality; (of art forms, political parties, enterprises, products etc) developed locally from the outset; wholly indigenous
HSK 7-9
wavelength
negative growth / economic recession
overall length / span
HSK 7-9
director general
not having any special skill / without any qualifications
duration
fierce and ambitious character / formidable person
to grow (usually of abstract things) / to yield / to develop
profound / significant / meaningful
(geometry) side length
chief of staff
(idiom) one declines while the other flourishes; one loses out when the other one gains (as in a trade-off or a zero-sum game)
a good thing doesn't last forever (idiom)
arc length (the length of a curve segment)
when you teach someone, both teacher and student will benefit
(Tw) Prosecutor-General
to spread malicious gossip / also written 飛短流長|飞短流长
minister of finance
foreign minister / secretary of state / minister of foreign affairs
to seem to grow younger / to regain one's youthful looks
what one is good at
slender / lanky / tall and thin
HSK 7-9
chair (or president, speaker etc) of national congress
Taoist priest / Daoist priest
elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age
chairman (of a legislative assembly) / speaker
to lengthen / to drag out
section chief / CL: 個|个
executive chef / head chef
to have profound import (idiom); to be deeply significant
presiding judge
platoon leader / sergeant
to lengthen / to pull sth out longer
conductor / train manager
deputy chair of board / vice-president (of a university etc)
lit. for some things a foot may be too short, and for the other an inch will suffice (proverb) / fig. everyone has their strong and weak points / everything has its advantages and disadvantages
long / drawn-out / prolonged / lingering
(police) detective
slender
warden
Auld Lang Syne, Scottish song with lyrics by Robert Burns 羅伯特·伯恩斯|罗伯特·伯恩斯, sung to mark the start of a new year or as a farewell / also rendered 友誼萬歲|友谊万岁 or 友誼天長地久|友谊天长地久
provost
(military) brigade commander
head of a division of the music academy of the imperial court
bank president
town headman / mayor (of small town or village) / bailiff
to spread malicious gossip
to lengthen
secretary-general
packet size (computing)
senior or older male schoolmate
long and narrow
senior
Yanchang county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi
a long time
slim
headman (of primitive people) / tribal chief / used as translation for foreign leaders, e.g. Indian Rajah or Arab Sheik or Emir

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