"Span" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 跨 |  kuà | to step across / to stride over / to straddle / to span |   |
| 全长 | quán cháng | overall length / span | |
| 纵深 | zòng shēn | depth (from front to rear) / depth (into a territory) / span (of time) / (fig.) depth (of deployment, progress, development etc) | |
| 横跨 | héng kuà | to span / to stretch across / to travel across | |
| 跨度 | kuà dù | span / horizontal distance between vertical supports | |
| 拃 | zhǎ | span (unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand) / to span (measure with one's hand) | |
| 跨径 | kuà jìng | span (architecture) | |
| 跨距 | kuà jù | (Tw) span (architecture) / time span | |
| 寿命 | shòu mìng | life span / life expectancy / lifetime (of a machine) | |
| 天命 | Tiān mìng | Mandate of Heaven / destiny / fate / one's life span | |
| 天年 | tiān nián | natural life span | |
| 有始无终 | yǒu shǐ wú zhōng | to start but not finish (idiom) / to fail to carry things through / lack of sticking power / short attention span | |
| 一曝十寒 | yī pù shí hán | one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius) / fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / lack of sticking power / short attention span | |
| 为德不卒 | wéi dé bù zú | to start on virtue but give up (idiom) / to fail to carry things through / lack of sticking power / short attention span | |
| 为德不终 | wéi dé bù zhōng | to start on virtue but give up (idiom) / to fail to carry things through / lack of sticking power / short attention span | |
| 记忆广度 | jì yì guǎng dù | memory span | |
| 阅读广度 | yuè dú guǎng dù | reading span | |
| 阅读广度测验 | yuè dú guǎng dù cè yàn | reading span test | |
| 一暴十寒 | yī pù shí hán | one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius) / fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / short attention span | |
| 寿数已尽 | shòu shù yǐ jǐn | to die (when one's predestined life span is up) | |
| 年寿 | nián shòu | length of life / life span | |
| 寿考 | shòu kǎo | long life / life span | |
| 臂展 | bì zhǎn | arm span | |
