1. measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m)2. to measure3. husband4. polite appellation for an older male+1 条 丈夫 zhàng fu HSK 4 前 2000 名 最常用的 2,000 个词之一 husband
1. lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)2. fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline3. to take a dive
wife's mother; mother-in-law
1. a manly man2. a man of character
1. mother's sister's husband2. husband of mother's sister
光芒万丈 光芒萬丈 guāng máng wàn zhàng (idiom) boundless radiance; splendor
(coll.) father-in-law (wife's father)
1. square zhang (i.e. unit of area 10 feet square)2. monastic room 10 feet square3. Buddhist or Daoist abbot4. abbot's chamber+1 条 +2 条 1. to measure2. measurement
1. wife's father (father-in-law)2. old man
wife's mother; mother-in-law
1. older sister's husband2. brother-in-law
father-in-law (wife's father)
sir (respectful form of address for an old man)
1. lit. ten thousand fathoms2. fig. extremely high or deep3. lofty4. bottomless+1 条 Guzhang, a county in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州[xiāng xī tǔ jiā zú miáo zú zì zhì zhōu], Hunan
ancient spear-like weapon 18 Chinese feet 尺[chǐ] in length, with a wavy spearhead like a snake's body
no poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.
万丈高楼平地起 萬丈高樓平地起 wàn zhàng gāo lóu píng dì qǐ 1. towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom)2. great oaks from little acorns grow
万丈光芒 萬丈光芒 wàn zhàng guāng máng see 光芒万丈[guāng máng wàn zhàng]
zhang (Chinese unit of length equal to 3⅓ meters)
男子汉大丈夫 男子漢大丈夫 nán zǐ hàn dà zhàng fu (coll.) he-man
大丈夫能屈能伸 dà zhàng fu néng qū néng shēn 1. A leader can submit or can stand tall as required.2. ready to give and take3. flexible
树高千丈，叶落归根 樹高千丈，葉落歸根 shù gāo qiān zhàng , yè luò guī gēn 1. fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb)2. fig. everything has its ancestral home3. in old age, an expatriate returns home
道高一尺，魔高一丈 dào gāo yī chǐ , mó gāo yī zhàng (saying) as one climbs higher on the path of righteousness, one faces ever greater challenges from evil; no sooner does one overcome one obstacle than another arises
丈二和尚，摸不着头脑 丈二和尚，摸不著頭腦 zhàng èr hé shang , mō bu zháo tóu nǎo 1. lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom)2. fig. at a total loss
丈二金刚摸不着头脑 丈二金剛摸不著頭腦 zhàng èr jīn gāng mō bu zháo tóu nǎo see 丈二和尚，丈二和尚，摸不着头脑[zhàng èr hé shang mō bu zháo tóu nǎo]
树高千丈，落叶归根 樹高千丈，落葉歸根 shù gāo qiān zhàng , luò yè guī gēn see 樹高千丈，树高千丈，叶落归根[shù gāo qiān zhàng yè luò guī gēn]