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张

zhāng

stretch

Simplified form of 張. Phonosemantic compound. 弓 represents the meaning and 長 represents the sound.

Components
弓 meaning component

弓  Meaning component

gōng

  

bow

长 sound component

长  Sound component

zhǎng, cháng

  

long

Evolution

张 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
张 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
张 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
张 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
张 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

张 (張) 

zhāng

stretch, extend, expand; sheet; to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes

张 (張) 

Zhāng

surname Zhang

Most common words with 张
Freq.
Word
Meaning

张

to open up

紧张

nervous

扩张

expansion

主张

to advocate

夸张

to exaggerate

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

涨

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 81.5313% of movies

375th most common character in movies

318th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

張

Unicode

U+5F20


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