surname Zhang
to open up / to spread / sheet of paper / classifier for flat objects, sheet / classifier for votes

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a spreadsheet. James II of England (zh) practices his archery skills in front of the anglepod (ang1). Riding on a longboard (长) he shoots arrows using his composite bow (弓) trying to hit a spreadsheet (张).

张 character breakdown

a bow (weapon) / CL:張|张[zhang1] / to bend / to arch (one's back etc)

Mnemonic symbol: this character just looks like a composite bow.

Gitta Giraffe (gu) is shooting arrows with a composite bow (弓) in front of the engine ((e)ng1).
length / long / forever / always / constantly

= + + 丿 : Charlie Chaplin sped into the anglepod riding his longboard, but in the kitchen he doesn't know how to stop. He manages to make a u-turn by hooking him to the pole of a wind wheel with a sickle, but after the turn he can't help but bump into a giant banana.
chief / head / elder / to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance

= + + 丿 : The chief (长) is asking James II of England (zh) for help, because his wind wheel (丆) in the anglepod's living room (丆) isn't performing very well. After finding out that there's too much friction, James II of England uses a sickle (乛) to cut open a banana (丿) and uses the pulp to grease the wind wheel and enhance (长) its performance.

Characters with 张 as component

to rise (of prices, rivers)
to swell / to distend

= + : James II of England (zh) accidentally poured a bottle of water (氵) over his spreadsheet (张) in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4) and now it is swelling (涨) to an impressive size.

Words with 张

expansion / dilation / to expand (e.g. one's power or influence) / to broaden
flustered / agitated
to think for oneself and act accordingly (idiom); to act on one's own initiative
to make public / to disclose
to look around / to peep (through a crack) / to peer at / to throw a look at
openly and without fear / brazenly
to take care of / to raise money / to attend to (guests, customers etc)
to look in all directions (idiom) / to glance around
to bare fangs and brandish claws (idiom); to make threatening gestures
diastolic blood pressure
lit. to restring one's bow / to reform and start over again
lit. just because Zhang the butcher dies, doesn't mean we'll have to eat pork mixed with bristles (idiom) / fig. nobody is indispensable
theory of seafloor spreading (geology)
if you lift the headrope the meshes spread open (idiom) / take care of the big things and the little things will take care of themselves / (of a piece of writing) well-structured and ordered

Sentences with 张

张 currently does not appear in any sentence.