Radical 丿

4 strokes

長

Normally “chang” would be a DIY pronunciation, but we need a spaceship story here!

When 长 appears as part of another character we will use “long” in the equation and story.

[长江 (148) chángjiāng the Yangtse River]

[长大 (47) zhǎngdà to grow up]

[生长 (133) shēngzhǎng to grow, grow up]

[班长 (113) bānzhǎng leader (of team)]

1.

/ On the bridge of the spaceship the captain looked at the long row of wheels on the engineer’s desk. He had no idea which one to turn, so sent the fairy flitting off to find Mr Chang, the engineer.

2.

/ “Big Chief Wheel” was so called because he collected wagon wheels from raids on the passing wagon trains. Teddy made jangling wind chimes out of the wheel bolts (so that the wind proclaimed how many wagons the Chief had raided).