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Zhang

proper nounproper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //d͡ʒæŋ//
  • //ʒæŋ//
  • //zæŋ//

A surname from Chinese.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Chinese.

    Zhang Yitang, a Chinese mathematician

    Zhang Xueliang, whose name was also rendered Chang Hsueh-liang, was born in 1901 in Manchuria. His father, Zhang Zuolin, a leading warlord known as "the Old Marshal," was assassinated in 1928 by the Japanese. "The Young Marshal" emerged in his place as one of the most powerful military figures in China.

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 張 /张 (Zhāng). Doublet of Truong.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Chinese.

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 章 (Zhāng).

proper noun

  1. 1

    A river in Shanxi, Henan and Hebei, China.

    During the hot, dry month of August 1992 the farmers of Baishan village in Hebei province and Panyang village in Henan came to blows. Residents from each village hurled insults and rudimentary explosives at the other across the Zhang River – the river that feeds the Red Flag Canal Irrigation System and forms the border between the two provinces.

  2. 2

    A river in Fujian, China.

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 漳 (Zhāng).

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