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  *张* | 张* | *张
to open up / to spread / sheet of paper / classifier for flat objects, sheet / classifier for votes
HSK 3
to advocate / to stand for / view / position / stand / proposition / viewpoint / assertion / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
nervous / keyed up / intense / tense / strained / in short supply / scarce / CL: 陣|阵
HSK 3
flustered / agitated
HSK 7-9
to display ostentatiously / to bring out into the open / to make public / to spread around / flamboyant / brash
HSK 7-9
expansion / dilation / to expand (e.g. one's power or influence) / to broaden
HSK 7-9
to post (a notice) / to advertise
HSK 7-9
to look in all directions (idiom) / to glance around
HSK 7-9
to be decorated with lanterns and colored banners (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to open a business / first transaction of a business day
HSK 7-9
to uphold (e.g. justice or virtue) / to promote
HSK 7-9
to exaggerate / overstated; exaggerated / hyperbole / (coll.) excessive; ridiculous; outrageous
HSK 7-9
(idiom) any Tom, Dick or Harry; anyone
Zhang Xu (probably early 8th century), Tang dynasty poet and calligrapher, most famous for his grass script 草書|草书
Zhang Yi (c. 3rd century), literary figure from Wei of the Three Kingdoms, other name 稚讓|稚让, named as compiler of earliest extant Chinese encyclopedia 廣雅|广雅 and several lost works
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *张* | 张* | *张
surname Zhang
Leslie Cheung (1956-2003), Hong Kong singer and actor
seafloor spreading (geology)
Zhang Xun (1854-1923), Qing loyalist general who attempted to restore the abdicated emperor Puyi 溥儀|溥仪 to the throne in the Manchu Restoration of 1917 張勳復辟|张勋复辟
detente
paper
tension
Jung Chang (1952-), British-Chinese writer, name at birth Zhang Erhong 張二鴻|张二鸿, author of Wild Swans 野天鵝|野天鹅 and Mao: The Unknown Story 毛澤東·鮮為人知的故事|毛泽东·鲜为人知的故事
Jacky Cheung or Hok Yau Jacky (1961-), Cantopop and film star
opitoshtonous (med.), muscular spasm of the body associated with tetanus and meningitis
to relax and expand / (physiology) diastole
Zhang Yang (1967-), PRC film director and screenwriter
to open one's mouth (to eat, speak etc) / to gape / to start talking (esp. to make a request)
Zhangbei county in Zhangjiakou 張家口|张家口, Hebei
Zhangdian District of Zibo city 淄博市, Shandong
brash / insolent / frantic
(idiom) with great fanfare; on a grand scale
(four proverbial names) Tom, Dick and Harry
lit. with swords drawn and bows bent (idiom); fig. a state of mutual hostility / at daggers drawn
to bare fangs and brandish claws (idiom); to make threatening gestures
(printing) proof; specimen page / sample photograph / (fashion design) pattern sheet
to open up / to spread / to extend
extravagance and waste (idiom)
to take care of / to raise money / to attend to (guests, customers etc)
openly and without fear / brazenly
(idiom) to act on one's own; to decide for oneself
to make public / to disclose
Zhangwan district of Shiyan city 十堰市, Hubei
Chamberlain (name) / Wilt Chamberlain (1936-1999), US basketball player
(idiom) to bluff; to bluster; to make an empty show of strength
recalcitrant / unreasonable / peevish
rampant / unbridled / arrogant / aggressive
(of a shop) to close down; to go out of business
lit. to put Zhang's hat on Li's head / to attribute sth to the wrong person (idiom) / to confuse one thing with another
flustered; in a panic
ostentation / extravagance
agape and tongue-tied (idiom); at a loss for words / gaping and speechless
to hang up (a picture, banner, mosquito net etc)
alarmed / flustered
lit. to restring one's bow / to reform and start over again
(idiom) to launch an all-out attack / to roundly condemn; to castigate
Zhang Ning (1975-), PRC female badminton player and Olympic gold medalist
Zhang San, name for an unspecified person, first of a series of three: 張三|张三, 李四, 王五 Tom, Dick and Harry / (dialect) wolf
Zhang Dan (1985-), Chinese figure skater
Zhang Jue (-184), leader of the Yellow turban rebels during the late Han
tension and relaxation
diastolic blood pressure
lit. Zhang Three and Li Four (idiom) / (fig.) any Tom, Dick or Harry
Zhang Dejiang (1946-), PRC politician
to look around / to peep (through a crack) / to peer at / to throw a look at
tensor (math.)
Zhang Yi (-309 BC), political strategist of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家 during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
Chang Chen (1976-), Taiwanese film actor
Zhang Heng (78-139) great Han dynasty astronomer and mathematician
Zhang Ji (767-830), Tang Dynasty poet
Cho Chang (Harry Potter)
Zhang Yi (1608-1695), prolific author and poet spanning interregnum between Ming and Qing
Zhang Dai (1597-c. 1684), late Ming scholar
Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician / Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank / other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention
to be troubled / to be concerned
Zhang Yimou (1950-), PRC film director
Zhangjiakou, prefecture-level city in Hebei Province 河北省
Eileen Chang (1920-1995), famous Chinese-American novelist
A-Mei, aka Gulilai Amit (1972-), aboriginal Taiwanese pop singer
Zhang Juzheng (1525-1582), Grand Secretary during the Ming dynasty, credited with bringing the dynasty to its apogee
to open one's eyes wide
Zhang Qian (-114 BC), Han dynasty explorer of 2nd century BC
Zhang Chang, official and scholar of the Western Han dynasty
Maggie Cheung (1964-), Hong Kong actress
Ming dynasty scholar (1602–1641), prolific writer, proponent of the Fushe 復社|复社 cultural renewal movement, author of Five Men's Tombstone Inscription 五人墓碑記|五人墓碑记
Zhangjiagang, a county-level city in Suzhou City 蘇州市|苏州市, Jiangsu
Zhang Zuolin (c. 1873-1928), warlord of Manchuria 1916-1928
variant of 張皇|张皇
Cecilia Cheung (1980-), Hong Kong actress and pop singer
Zhang Fei (168-221), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, famous as fearsome fighter and lover of wine
lit. Zhang Fei fights Yue Fei / fig. an impossible combination / an impossible turn of events (idiom)
Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), prominent politician in late Qing
Chang Dai-chien or Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), one of the greatest Chinese artists of the 20th century
Zhang Zhizhong (1890-1969), National Revolutionary Army general

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