Surname · Chinese · Vietnamese
張
“strong; firm; tense”
張 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Vietnamese.
Chinese and VietnameseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Zhang.
Meaning & origin
What it means
張 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/m/b-raŋ, meaning “strong; firm; tense.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/m/b-raŋ (“strong; firm; tense”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(d/t)aŋ (“tense; tight”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
張’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 張 as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form ZHANG.
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