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

nervous / keyed up / intense / tense / strained / in short supply / scarce / CL:陣|阵[zhen4]
to exaggerate / overstated / exaggerated / hyperbole / (coll.) excessive / ridiculous / outrageous
to open up / to spread / to extend
to open a business / first transaction of a business day
to open one's mouth (to speak, esp. to make a request) / to gape
(of a shop) to close down; to go out of business
ostentation / extravagance
to relax and expand / (physiology) diastole
brash / insolent / frantic
extravagance and waste (idiom)
Zhang the Third and Li the Fourth (idiom) / Tom, Dick and Harry
overweening attitude / threatening manner
lit. blood vessels swell wide (idiom) / fig. one's blood runs quicker / to be excited
opitoshtonous (med.), muscular spasm of the body associated with tetanus and meningitis
hypertension / excessive stress

Sentences with 张

张 currently does not appear in any sentence.