measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m); to measure; husband; polite appellation for an older male

a manly man; a man of character

one of three fabled islands in Eastern sea, abode of immortals

square zhang (i.e. unit of area 10 feet square); monastic room 10 feet square; Buddhist or Daoist abbot; abbot's chamber

wife's mother; mother-in-law

lit. ten thousand fathoms; fig. extremely high or deep; lofty; bottomless

wife's father (father-in-law); old man

wife's mother; mother-in-law

to measure; measurement

decameter

see 古丈縣|古丈县[Gu3 zhang4 Xian4]

older sister's husband

older sister's husband; brother-in-law

husband of paternal aunt

mother's sister's husband; husband of mother's sister

father-in-law (wife's father)

zhang (Chinese unit of length equal to 3⅓ meters)

teacher's husband

sir (respectful form of address for an old man)

wife's uncle

wife's aunt

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

(coll.) father-in-law (wife's father)

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

see 光芒萬丈|光芒万丈[guang1 mang2 wan4 zhang4]

ancient spear-like weapon 18 Chinese feet 尺[chi3] in length, with a wavy spearhead like a snake's body

(idiom) boundless radiance; splendor

to get really angry

no poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.

(coll.) he-man

towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom); great oaks from little acorns grow

A leader can submit or can stand tall as required.; ready to give and take; flexible

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

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]

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]

(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

lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom); fig. at a total loss