Chinese surnames

章

zhāng · Zhang

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 40
Ancestral seat (junwang)
河间
Wikidata
Q13391761

In other languages

  • German Zhang
  • English Zhang
  • French Zhang
  • Korean 장
  • Russian Чжан
  • Vietnamese Chương

Notable historical bearers

Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.

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Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).