久 (jiǔ)
Long time; long duration.
How 久 is written
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 勹 — wrap
- Traditional
- 久
- Simplified
- 久 (unchanged)
Components
- 勹 wrap
- ㇏ N/A
Common words using 久
- 好久 hǎojiǔ
- quite a while
- 不久 bùjiǔ
- not long (after); before too long; soon
- 久久 jiǔjiǔ
- for a very long time
- 久違 jiǔwéi
- (haven't done sth) for a long time; a long time since we last met
- 久遠 jiǔyuǎn
- old; ancient; far away
- 多久 duōjiǔ
- how long?
- 天長地久 tiānchángdìjiǔ
- enduring while the world lasts (idiom); eternal
- 恆久 héngjiǔ
- constant; persistent; long-lasting
- 持久 chíjiǔ
- lasting; enduring; persistent
- 永久 yǒngjiǔ
- everlasting; perpetual; lasting
- 許久 xǔjiǔ
- for a long time; for ages
- 長久 chángjiǔ
- (for a) long time
久 in a sentence
好久不見，你最近好嗎？
Hǎojiǔ bújiàn, nǐ zuìjìn hǎo ma?
“Long time no see, how have you been recently?”
How common is 久?
久 is the 636th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 80.9% of all running text.
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