長

(to) complete, continue, develop, endure, excel, go on, grow (tall), increase, keep up, last (long), master, perfect, perpetuate, persist, prevail, profit, prosper, reach for, survive, sustain, take the lead (s, ed, ing); (to be) (long-) lasting, lived, term; always, continued, durable, enduring, eternal, excelling, excellent, growing, long, old, perpetual, persistent, prevailing, surviving, sustained, tall, tenured; continually, eternally, perpetually, regularly, steadily, for long; (a, the) continuance, endurance, length, longevity, long life, long time, maturity, perpetuity, prosperity; strong point, forte; as Zhang3: (the) chief, elder, eldest, senior, superior; (to be) grown up, mature, experienced, long lasting, long standing

Radical: 168+0 | First occurrence: Hexagram 07.5