Radical 168



Radical 168 or radical long (長部) meaning "long" or "" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

长, the simplified form of 長, is the 83rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with a variant form 镸 and the traditional form 長 listed as its associated indexing components.

Sinogram
As an independent sinogram 長 is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is taught in second grade