IDENTITY
常chángoften; always
HSK 1Top 200
CORE MEANING
often; always
- Part of speech
- adverb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.oftenHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 巾cloth radical (jīn)
- strokes
- 11
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱𫩠巾
- gives the sound cháng (historical)
- long cloth; a skirt
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
非常fēichángvery
常常chángchángoften
经常jīngchángoften
Graded examples
他经常锻炼身体。Tā jīngcháng duànliàn shēntǐ.HSK3
He often exercises.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
A long skirt (巾) worn daily (尚) — the usual, the constant.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #200
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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