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- measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m)
- to measure
- husband
- polite appellation for an older male
- square zhang (i.e. unit of area 10 feet square)
- monastic room 10 feet square
- Buddhist or Daoist abbot
- abbot's chamber
Trad. 萬丈
- lit. ten thousand fathoms
- fig. extremely high or deep
- lofty
- bottomless
Trad. 古丈縣
- Guzhang, a county in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州[Xiang1 xi1 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Hunan
- lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)
- fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline
- to take a dive
- ancient spear-like weapon 18 Chinese feet 尺[chi3] in length, with a wavy spearhead like a snake's body
Trad. 光芒萬丈
- (idiom) boundless radiance; splendor
Trad. 萬丈光芒
- see 光芒萬丈|光芒万丈[guang1 mang2 wan4 zhang4]
Trad. 無毒不丈夫
- no poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.
Trad. 男子漢大丈夫
- (coll.) he-man
- A leader can submit or can stand tall as required.
- ready to give and take
- flexible
Trad. 萬丈高樓平地起
- towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom)
- great oaks from little acorns grow
Trad. 丈二金剛摸不著頭腦
- see 丈二和尚，摸不著頭腦|丈二和尚，摸不着头脑[zhang4 er4 he2 shang5 , mo1 bu5 zhao2 tou2 nao3]
Trad. 樹高千丈，落葉歸根
- see 樹高千丈，葉落歸根|树高千丈，叶落归根[shu4 gao1 qian1 zhang4 , ye4 luo4 gui1 gen1]
Trad. 樹高千丈，葉落歸根
- fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb)
- fig. everything has its ancestral home
- in old age, an expatriate returns home
- (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
Trad. 丈二和尚，摸不著頭腦
- lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom)
- fig. at a total loss