U+957F "长" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+957F "长" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that functions as both an adjective and a verb, primarily meaning "long" in terms of distance or duration, as well as "to grow" or "to develop." It is a simplified form of the traditional character 長, used in modern Mandarin Chinese and other East Asian languages, and appears frequently in common words such as 长度 (length) and 长大 (to grow up). Historically, the character’s pictographic origins depict a person with long hair, symbolizing the concept of extension or seniority.