張
简 张 · 繁 張Meanings · zoeng1
- (verb) open (month)
Meanings · zoeng1
- to open up
- to spread
- sheet of paper
- classifier for flat objects, sheet
- classifier for votes
- tense
- magnify
- to display
- to look
- to put together
- to panic
- a surname
- ten years
Meanings · zoeng3
- an alternative form for the word帳, tent
- an alternative form for the word脹, swell
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 張 Zhāng CC-CEDICT · Mandarinsurname Zhang
- 張 zhāng CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: zhang1. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 23 senses · 2 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
zoeng1 · zoeng3
Cantonese word readings for 張. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- to string a bow; to pull a bowstring taut
- to stretch; to open up; to spread
- to expand; to spread
- to set out; to display
- to look
- (of a new business) to start; to open for business
- Classifier for objects that can be expanded.
- Classifier for objects with a flat surface: sheet
- Classifier for votes.
- (Cantonese, Hakka, Zhongshan Min) Classifier for knives.
- (Cantonese) Classifier for age of a person, approximating in multiples of tens. (only for thirty years old or above)
- (Chinese astronomy) Extended Net (one of Twenty-Eight Mansions)
- a surname, Zhang, listed #24 of the Baijiaxing
- (Hokkien) to make arrangements for; to set up
- (Hokkien) to get angry; to lose one's temper
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to pretend; to make believe; to feign
character
- to boast; to exaggerate (now merged into Pronunciation 1)
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) original form of 脹／胀 (zhàng)
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) original form of 帳／帐 (zhàng)
character
- (Hokkien, Puxian Min) to catch an animal by drawing a net, setting a trap, etc.
- (Hokkien, Puxian Min, by extension) to wait for; to stalk; to watch out (in order to catch or get something)
- (Hokkien, Puxian Min) implement for catching animals; trap
- (Puxian Min) to run into; to encounter
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