长 cháng
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 长 — long, lasting
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
长征
chángzhēng
long march; long campaign
Characters in this word
征 zhēng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 彳 — to step with the left foot
- Made of
- 彳 to step with the left foot 正 straight, right, proper, correct, just, true
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 企业的海外布局不是短跑，而是一场需要耐心的长征。 Qǐyè de hǎiwài bùjú bú shì duǎnpǎo, ér shì yì chǎng xūyào nàixīn de chángzhēng. A company's overseas expansion is not a sprint, but a long campaign requiring patience.
- 学好一门外语就像一场长征，需要每天坚持。 Xué hǎo yì mén wàiyǔ jiù xiàng yì chǎng chángzhēng, xūyào měitiān jiānchí. Learning a foreign language well is like a long march; it takes daily persistence.
- 登山队踏上了长达一个月的长征，背着行李向高山走去。 Dēngshānduì tà shàng le chángdá yí ge yuè de chángzhēng, bēi zhe xíngli xiàng gāoshān zǒu qù. The climbing team set out on a month-long trek, carrying their luggage toward the high mountains.