长文

長文

chángwén

noun #69,743

Measure Word

一篇长文 piān

Meanings

1 long-form article
2 long piece of writing
3 lengthy text

Characters

Examples

他在公众号上发了一篇长文，分析这次事件。

Tā zài gōngzhònghào shàng fā le yī piān chángwén, fēnxī zhè cì shìjiàn.

He posted a long-form article on his WeChat public account analyzing this incident.

微博虽然限字，但现在也支持发长文了。

Wēibó suīrán xiàn zì, dàn xiànzài yě zhīchí fā chángwén le.

Weibo has a character limit, but it now also supports posting long-form text.

这是一篇长文，建议收藏慢慢看。

Zhè shì yī piān chángwén, jiànyì shōucáng mànmàn kàn.

This is a long read — I recommend bookmarking it and taking your time.

Tips

usage

长文 has become a fixed term in Chinese social-media vocabulary, contrasted with 短文 (short text) and 微博体 (Weibo-style brevity). Platforms like Weibo and WeChat explicitly offer a "发长文" (post long-form) feature for essays over the normal character limit.

memory

Literal and easy: 长 (long) + 文 (text) = long text. The word is fully compositional, so if you know the characters, you know the word.

Stroke Order

长 cháng

文 wén