Longest Chinese word (# of Characters)?

[whereishunter]

A friend asked me the other day. What its the longest Chinese word? (Ie Number of Characters?) I know that most words are 2 or 3 characters, but other than that I have no idea...

I will be interested in seeing what long/large Chinese words are out there.

[skylee]

Your question reminds me of this programme ->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjI0EzrT_C8 (from 4:03)

which gave us this word -

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[vampire]

the longest word i can think about is 风马牛不相及 or 迅雷不及掩耳, google returns many socalled longest words or chenyu,but i think its more accurate to call those "sentences" rather than "words".

Your question reminds me of this programme ->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjI0EzrT_C8 (from 4:03)

which gave us this word -

Quote:

蘇格蘭場非工業用國際線路16 Valve風油軚垂直升降連鐳射洗衣乾衣腐蝕性氣墊毛筆

omg that guy is really awesome

[peterlkj]

My favourite, from my field is: 如染色质免疫共沉淀芯片技术. To be fair it's not much shorter in English. Anyone care to guess?

[Hofmann]

ChIP?

蘇格蘭場非工業用國際線路16 Valve風油軚垂直升降連鐳射洗衣乾衣腐蝕性氣墊毛筆

OK You know what? This is pointless, because people can just make up words as long as they want.

[skylee]

This is pointless, because people can just make up words as long as they want.

It made people laugh and everyone enjoyed it. That was the point. haha.

[roddy]

Alright, so what's the longest Chinese word, in a dictionary, that isn't a proper noun. I'll start the bidding at 7 characters, with 经济技术开发区。 Arguments about whether that's actually a word or not are also welcome.

[atitarev]

Imo, it's a compound word or word combination but since there are no spaces, it's hard to tell for sure. Well, in German, neunzehnhundertneunundneunzig (nineteen (hundred) ninety-nine) is written with no spaces but not sure if it's one word. Your word is not atomic enough.

[Lugubert]

I'm too lazy to look for an example, but I suppose that the complete chemical names for proteins could be argued to be "words" and might run into several pages.

[Don_Horhe]

And there I go thinking that 小儿麻痹症 is one of the longest words in Chinese.

[skylee]

How about ... 大慈大悲觀世音菩薩 (aka 觀音)?

[HashiriKata]

I'd say 大慈大悲 is a kind of prefix modifying 觀世音菩薩.

(But then, it's not easy to say what a word is )

[MaLaTang]

中苏解决悬案大纲

协定 Zhōng Sū jiě jué xuán àn dà gāng xié dìng the treaty of 1923 normalizing relations between the Soviet Union and the Northern Warlord government of China

that is the longest word ive come accross...coming in at a whopping 10 characters

[BertR]

In 朗道词典 I found this one: 六羟基硬脂酸８，９，１１，１２，１４，１５－六羟基十八烷酸

Meaning: hexahydroxy-stearic acid

[Michael Lee]

中华人民共和国中央人民政府

I think it's long enough.

[Michaelyus]

In 朗道词典 I found this one: 六羟基硬脂酸８，９，１１，１２，１４，１５－六羟基十八烷酸

Meaning: hexahydroxy-stearic acid

Ehm, those are two renditions of the same thing (or rather one is a name of specific member of a family, the other is the name of that group). The first is hexahydroxystearic acid (with 'stearic acid' being equivalent to '硬脂酸'); the second is 8,9,11,12,14,15-hexahydroxyoctadecanoic acid (with the '-anoic acid' root being equivalent to '烷酸').

[yialanliu]

中华人民共和国中央人民政府

That's a proper noun though

In 朗道词典 I found this one: 六羟基硬脂酸８，９，１１，１２，１４，１５－六羟基十八烷酸

I don't think this counts either if I was the one judging. It might not be a proper noun, but it is a scientific name

[Kalark528]

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