丈 zhàng
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zhàng
measure word
zhang
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
Notes: A unit of length; there are 10 尺 in one 丈 in the Chinese Market System of Weights and Measures (ABC 'zhàng' 丈 m, p. 1237; Guoyu '丈' n 1; Kroll 2015 '丈' 1, p. 593; Mathews 1931 '丈', p. 21; NCCED '丈' 1, p. 2057; Unihan '丈') -
zhàng
verb
to measure
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
Notes: (ABC 'zhàng' 丈 m, p. 1237; Guoyu '丈' v; Kroll 2015 '丈' 1a, p. 593; NCCED '丈' 2, p. 2057) -
zhàng
noun
gentleman; man; husband
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (ABC 'zhàng' 丈 bf, p. 1237; Guoyu '丈' n 2; Kroll 2015 '丈' 2, p. 593; Mathews 1931 '丈', p. 21; NCCED '丈' 3-4, p. 2057; Unihan '丈')
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- 丈人峰 father-in-law; wife's father ; Zhangren Feng
- 一落千丈 to drop a thousand zhang in one fall; (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline; to take a dive
- 丈勘 to survey [land]
- 丈母娘 mother-in-law; wife's mother
- 岳丈 father-in-law; wife's father
- 姊丈 older sister's husband
- 公丈 decametre
- 丈量制度 a measurement system
- 老丈人 father-in-law (wife's father)
- 大丈夫 a man of character
- 大丈夫能屈能伸 A leader can submit or can stand tall as required. / ready to give and take / flexible
- 市丈 zhang
- 贱丈夫(賤丈夫) a lowly man
- 火冒三丈 thrown into a rage
- 丈人 an old man; an elder ; a patriarch ; Zhangren ; father-in-law; wfie's father
- 丈量 to measure
- 方丈山 Fangzhangshan
- 无毒不丈夫(無毒不丈夫) no poison, no great man; A great man has to be ruthless.
- 方丈洲 Fangzhangzhou
- 姐丈 older sister's husband; brother-in-law
- 魔高一丈，道高一尺 the devil is ten foot tall, virtue one foot; It takes constant vigilance to stave off evil.
- 万丈(萬丈) ten thousand fathoms; extremely high or deep; lofty; bottomless
- 叔丈母 wife's aunt
- 道高一尺，魔高一丈 it takes constant vigilance to stave off evil
- 老丈 sir; elderly gentleman
- 丈夫 husband ; a great man ; a man who is one zhang tall
- 万丈高楼平地起(萬丈高樓平地起) towering buildings are built up from the ground; great oaks from little acorns grow
- 丈夫气(丈夫氣) manly nature
- 丈母 mother-in-law; wife's mother
- 男子汉大丈夫(男子漢大丈夫) he-man
- 丈尺 length measurements
- 师丈(師丈) teacher's husband
- 姨丈 husband of maternal aunt
- 叔丈人 wife's uncle
- 姑丈 husband of paternal aunt
- 丈二和尚，摸不着头脑(丈二和尚，摸不著頭腦) like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head; at a total loss
- 方丈 an abbot ; a room a square zhang in area ; Fangzhang
- 国丈(國丈) father-in-law of the emperor
- 树高千丈，叶落归根(樹高千丈，葉落歸根) a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots; everything has its ancestral home
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