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CL:張|张[zhāng]
also written 書籤|书签[shū qiān]
Zhāng Jìng chū
Zhang Jingchu (1980-), PRC actress
Zhāng Yí níng
Zhang Yining (1981-), PRC female table tennis player and Olympic gold medalist
Hóng Wǔ
Hongwu Emperor, also written Hung-wu Ti , reign name of first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 硃元璋|朱元璋[Zhū Yuán zhāng] (1328-1398), reigned 1386-1398, Temple name明太祖[Míng Tài zǔ]
sì rén bāng
Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青, Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋, Yao Wenyuan 姚文元, Wang Hongwen 王洪文, who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution
Zhāng Yì móu
Zhang Yimou (1950-), PRC film director
Zhāng Yáng
Zhang Yang (1967-), PRC film director and screenwriter
Zhāng Xué liáng
Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001) son of Fengtian clique warlord, then senior general for the Nationalists and subsequently for the People's Liberation Army
jiān bing
thin pancake
CL:張|张[zhāng]
Zhāng Guó tāo
Zhang Guotao (1897-1979), Chinese communist leader in the 1920s and 1930s, defected to Guomindang in 1938
fāng zhang
square zhang (i.e. unit of area 10 feet square)
monastic room 10 feet square
Buddhist or Daoist abbot
abbot's chamber
Fāng zhang
one of three fabled islands in Eastern sea, abode of immortals
Zhāng Héng
Zhang Heng (78-139) great Han dynasty astronomer and mathematician
Míng shǐ
History of the Ming Dynasty, twenty fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Zhang Tingyu 張廷玉|张廷玉[Zhang1 Ting2 yu4] in 1739 during the Qing Dynasty, 332 scrolls
Zhāng Zǐ yí
Zhang Ziyi (1979-), PRC actress
shí miàn mái fú
Ambush from ten sides (pipa solo piece)
House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋[Zhang1 Yi4 mou2])
Zhāng Bīn
Zhang Bin (1979-), CCTV sports presenter
Zhāng Dà qiān
Chang Dai-chien or Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), one of the greatest Chinese artists of the 20th century
Zhāng Sān
John Doe
Zhang San, name for an unspecified person, first of a series of three: 張三|张三, 李四[Li3 Si4], 王五[Wang2 Wu3] Tom, Dick and Harry
Zhāng Huà
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
Zhāng Níng
Zhang Ning (1975-), PRC female badminton player and Olympic gold medalist
Zhāng Fēi
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
dì dòng yí
the world's first seismograph invented by Zhang Heng 张衡 in 132
abbr. for 候風地動儀|候风地动仪
Zhāng Xù
Zhang Xu (probably early 8th century), Tang dynasty poet and calligrapher, most famous for his grass script 草書|草书
Zhāng Wén tiān
Zhang Wentian (1900-1976), CCP party leader and theorist
Zhāng Dān
Zhang Dan (1985-), Chinese figure skater
bǎo hú lu de mì mì
Secret of the magic gourd (1958), prize-winning children's fairy tale by Zhang Tian'yi 張天翼|张天翼[Zhang1 Tian1 yi4]
Mǎn chéng jìn dài huáng jīn jiǎ
Curse of the Golden Flower (2007), period drama movie by Zhang Yimou
Zhāng xiàn
Zhang county in Dingxi 定西[Ding4 xi1], Gansu
Wǔ hǔ jiàng
Liu Bei's five great generals in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, namely: Guan Yu 關羽|关羽, Zhang Fei 張飛|张飞, Zhao Yun 趙雲|赵云, Ma Chao 馬超|马超, Huang Zhong 黃忠|黄忠
Zhāng Jué
Zhang Jue (-184), leader of the Yellow turban rebels during the late Han
Huáng tǔ dì
Yellow Earth, 1984 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋[Zhang1 Yi4 mou2]
Zhāng guān Lǐ dài
lit. to put Zhang's hat on Li's head
to attribute sth to the wrong person (idiom)
to confuse one thing with another
Zhāng Qiān
Zhang Qian (-114 BC), Han dynasty explorer of 2nd century BC
Zhāng Jū zhèng
Zhang Juzheng (1525-1582), Grand Secretary during the Ming dynasty, credited with bringing the dynasty to its apogee
Zhāng Zhī dòng
Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), prominent politician in late Qing
Zhāng Tài yán
Zhang Taiyan (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution
Zhāng Zuò lín
Zhang Zuolin (c. 1873-1928), warlord of Manchuria 1916-1928
Zhāng Yí
Zhang Yi (-309 BC), political strategist of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家[Zong4 heng2 jia1] during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
Zhāng Chūn qiáo
Zhang Chunqiao (1917-2005), one of the Gang of Four
Zhāng Bǎo
Zhang Bao (-184), leader of the Yellow Turban rebels during the late Han 漢朝|汉朝[Han4 chao2]
Wǔ líng yuán qū
Wuling district of Zhangjiajie city 張家界市|张家界市[Zhāng jiā jiè shì], Hunan
Zhāng Dài
Zhang Dai (1597-c. 1684), late Ming scholar
Zhāng Zì zhōng
Zhang Zizhong (1891-1940), Chinese National Revolutionary Army general during the Second Sino-Japanese War
Zhāng yí
Zhang Yi (1608-1695), prolific author and poet spanning interregnum between Ming and Qing
Zhāng Xiàn zhōng
Zhang Xianzhong (1606-1647), leader of a late-Ming peasant revolt
Zhāng Zhì xīn
Zhang Zhixin (1930-1975) female revolutionary and martyr, who followed the true Marxist-Leninist line as a party member, and was arrested in 1969, murdered in 1975 after opposing the counter-revolutionary party-usurping conspiracies of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, and only rehabilitated posthumously in 1979