久
jiǔ HSK2

long time (ago)

久 jiǔ
long adjective
of a long duration; for a long time

我已经等得足够久了。

wǒ yǐ​jing děng de zú​gòu jiǔ le.

I've waited long enough already.

两人已经离婚很久。

liǎng rén yǐ​jing lí​hūn hěn jiǔ.

The two have long been divorced.

duration particleadjective
the length of time since something happened; a specified amount of time
to stay
(literary) to stay or remain in a place for a long time; to linger
surname
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Antonym

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
637th most common 323.4 per million
Movie subtitles
456th most common 321.8 per million appears in 80% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
207.7 per million appears in 58% of films
Written text
76.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
3
Unicode
U+4E45

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)