Characters › 张
7 strokes · radical 弓 (bow) · traditional 張
11 strokes · simplified 张
A way to remember it
A bow, 弓, beside 长. Drawing a bow is stretching it, so 张 opens, spreads, and counts flat things: 一张纸, 一张床.
A picture that makes the shape stick — not a claim about the character’s history.
Draft — written with AI help and not yet read by a person. What that means.
Shown in simplified. Converting whole words needs one-to-many knowledge this site does not have — 发 is 發 in 出发 but 髮 in 头发 — and a confidently wrong word would be worse than an honest simplified one.
Got it. Tell someone:
to open up; to spread
zhāng — to open up; to spread
Radical 弓 (bow) · 7 strokes · traditional 張
11 strokes · simplified 张
A way to remember itA bow, 弓, beside 长. Drawing a bow is stretching it, so 张 opens, spreads, and counts flat things: 一张纸, 一张床.