长 cháng
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 长 — long, lasting
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
长期以来
chángqīyǐlái
over a long period; for a long time
Characters in this word
期 qī
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 月 — moon
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
来 lái
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Made of
- 未 not yet 丷 horns
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 长期以来，这个行业依赖低成本扩张，忽视了技术积累。 Chángqī yǐlái, zhè ge hángyè yīlài dī chéngběn kuòzhāng, hūshì le jìshù jīlěi. For a long time, this industry has relied on low-cost expansion and neglected the accumulation of technology.
- 长期以来，我们家一直住在这条小街上。 Chángqī yǐlái, wǒmen jiā yìzhí zhù zài zhè tiáo xiǎojiē shang. For a long time, our family has lived on this little street.
- 他每天都坚持跑步，长期以来从没有间断过。 Tā měitiān dōu jiānchí pǎobù, chángqī yǐlái cóng méiyǒu jiànduàn guo. He runs every day and for a long time has never missed a day.