zhāng
noun HSK 6 #2,753

Meanings

  1. 1 chapter; section
  2. 2 seal; stamp; badge
  3. 3 regulation; rule; order

Examples

Qǐng kàn dìsān zhāng.
Please see Chapter 3.
Gài gè zhāng jiù xíng le.
Just stamp it and that will do.
Zhè piān wénzhāng xiě de hěn hǎo.
This article is very well written.

Tips

usage
is used in: 文章 (article/essay), 章节 (chapter), 盖章 (stamp/seal), 规章 (regulation), 徽章 (badge). 盖章 (affixing a seal) is extremely important in Chinese bureaucracy and business.

Components

semantic
yīn
sound; tone
Top — sound/note. Original sense was a complete musical movement, a marked-off unit of sound, which extended to 'chapter, section, paragraph' and to 'seal, badge, regulation'. Indexed under Kangxi #117 (lì) by tradition; the radical sits buried in the upper rather than as a visibly separate piece.
semantic
shí
ten; complete
Bottom — ten, here standing for completion or wholeness (as in 十全十美 'perfect in every way'). Together with above: a complete, finished movement of music. From this came the abstract sense 'a complete chapter or section,' and by extension 'rule, regulation, stamp of authority.'

Filed under radical (lì, #117) by convention. is not a separate component in , so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

zhāng