zhàng
丈 (zhàng) is a Chinese word meaning “measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m); to measure; husband”.
Meanings
- 1measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m)
- 2to measure
- 3husband
- 4polite appellation for an older male
Related words
丈夫husband一落千丈lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)丈母娘wife's mother; mother-in-law火冒三丈to get really angry大丈夫a manly man姨丈mother's sister's husband光芒万丈(idiom) boundless radiance; splendor老丈人(coll.) father-in-law (wife's father)方丈square zhang (i.e. unit of area 10 feet square)方丈one of three fabled islands in Eastern sea, abode of immortals丈量to measure万丈lit. ten thousand fathoms