Zhāng is a Chinese surname. According to a 2013 study it was the 122-most common surname, shared by 1,570,000 people or 0.120% of the population, with the province with the most people being

Zhejiang Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiang ...

. It is the 40th name on the ''

Hundred Family Surnames The ''Hundred Family Surnames'' (), commonly known as ''Bai Jia Xing'', also translated as ''Hundreds of Chinese Surnames'', is a classic Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames. An unknown author compiled the book during the Song dy ...

'' poem. The surname written in ''Chữ Nôm'' is clearly distinguished and written as Trang or Chương. 章 was unlisted among the top 100 in either location. In 2015 it was reported 88th. combines the characters (''yin'', "sound", "(musical) note") and (''shi'', "ten"). It originally meant "brilliant", "to display", "a distinctive mark" . and was used as the name of a

fief A fief (; la, feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights granted by an Lord, overlord to a vassal, who held it in fealty or "in fee" in return for a for ...

, but as a common noun in modern use it means an "article" in a newspaper or magazine or a "chapter" in a book or law. The surname (

Old Chinese Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese language, Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese. The earliest examples of Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on oracle bones ...

: ''*taŋ'') originated from the legendary

Yan Emperor The Yan Emperor () or the Flame Emperor was a legendary ancient Chinese ruler in pre-dynastic times. Modern scholarship has identified the Sheep's Head Mountains (''Yángtóu Shān'') just north of Baoji in Shaanxi Province as his homeland and ...

, whose personal surname was Jiang (). On the establishment of the state of Qi,

Jiang Ziya Jiang Ziya ( century BC – century BC), also known by several other names, was a Chinese noble who helped kings Wen and Wu of Zhou overthrow the Shang in ancient China. Following their victory at Muye, he continued to serve ...

apportioned the land among his many descendants, including a one known as

Zhang Zhang may refer to: Chinese culture, etc. * Zhang (surname) (張/张), common Chinese surname ** Zhang (surname 章), a rarer Chinese surname * Zhang County (漳县), of Dingxi, Gansu * Zhang River (漳河), a river flowing mainly in Henan * ''Zha ...

(). Some of the people of this state simplified the character and took as their surname, particularly after it was annexed by Qi.''The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland'' The

Middle Chinese Middle Chinese (formerly known as Ancient Chinese) or the Qieyun system (QYS) is the historical variety of Chinese recorded in the '' Qieyun'', a rime dictionary first published in 601 and followed by several revised and expanded editions. The ...

pronunciation of the name was ''Tsyang'', the beginnings of what we now know to be the "Zhang" surname. It means "stamp, seal" in Chinese. *

Gordon G. Chang Gordon Guthrie Chang (born July 5, 1951) is a columnist, author, and lawyer. He is the author of ''The Coming Collapse of China'' in which he attempted to predict the collapse of China and claimed that it would collapse by 2011. In December 201 ...

(章家敦, born 1951), American writer and attorney who wrote ''

The Coming Collapse of China ''The Coming Collapse of China'' is a book by Gordon G. Chang, published in 2001, in which he argued that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was the root cause of many of China's problems and would cause the country's collapse by 2011. When 20 ...

'' (2001) *

Teresa Cheung Siu-wai Teresa Cheung Siu-wai () (born June 10, 1963) is a Canadian actress and producer. Early life Born in Hong Kong to parents of Shanghainese descent, Cheung appeared in her first advertisement at the age of three. She was born in a scholarly fam ...

(章小蕙, born 1963), Canadian actress *

Zhang Binglin Zhang Binglin (January 12, 1869 – June 14, 1936), also known by his art name Zhang Taiyan, was a Chinese philologist, textual critic, philosopher, and revolutionary. His philological works include ''Wen Shi'' (文始 "The Origin of Writing"), ...

(章炳麟, 1868–1936), Chinese philologist, textual critic, and anti-Manchu revolutionary. *

Zhang Hanzhi Zhang Hanzhi (; 14 July 1935 – 26 January 2008) was a Chinese diplomat who was Mao Zedong's English teacher and U.S. President Richard Nixon's interpreter during his historic 1972 trip to China. Early life and education Zhang was born in S ...

(章含之, 1935–2008) Chinese diplomat who was Mao Zedong's English teacher and U.S. President Richard Nixon's interpreter during his historic 1972 trip to China. * Yingying Zhang (章莹颖, 1990–2017), Chinese student who was murdered while studying in the US at the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Universit ...

Zhang Zetian Zhang Zetian (; born 18 November 1993), also known as Nancy Zhang, is a Chinese businesswoman and investor who is the chief fashion adviser of the luxury business of JD.com. She gained initial fame from the popularity of a photograph of her hol ...

(章泽天, born 1993), also known as Nancy Zhang, a Chinese businesswoman and investor who is the chief fashion adviser of the luxury business of JD.com *

Zhang Zhong Zhang Zhong (; born 5 September 1978) is a Chinese chess grandmaster, a twice Chinese champion and the 2005 Asian champion. In 1998, he became China's 9th Grandmaster. Career Zhang Zhong finished second at the World Junior Chess Championship ...

(章钟, born 1978), Chinese chess grandmaster who now plays for Singapore. *

Zhang Ziyi Zhang Ziyi (; ; born 9 February 1979) is a Chinese actress and model. She is regarded as one of the Four Dan Actresses of China. Her first major role was in '' The Road Home'' (1999). She later gained international recognition for her role in ...

(章子怡, born 1979), Chinese actress and model

References

{{101-200 Most Common Family Names in Mainland China Individual Chinese surnames