Chinese surname · rank 495

展

展 is read as zhǎn.

Pinyin

zhǎn

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 展

Basic meaning

open, unfold; stretch, extend

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Spring and Autumn tradition, 770-476 BCE

Place: Lu state ancestor-name layer; later Daibei / Northern Wei changed-surname context recorded separately.

Origin note

Zhan is verified through an ancestor-name layer and a changed-surname layer. The core Lu-state account traces the surname to Gongzi Zhan and Wuhai, whose group was named Zhan in the Lu tradition. A later ethnic-administrative layer records the Northern Wei Zhanchi compound surname being shortened to Zhan. A mythic Zhanshanggong account is preserved as a tradition, not treated as the sole historical origin.

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23mofang surname reference: Zhan - Gongzi Zhan, Wuhai, Lu Duke Yin clan-name layer and Northern Wei Zhanchi changed-surname layer
Baijiayoupu surname reference: Zhan - Gongzi Zhan, Wuhai, Zheng Qiao note, Wei Shu Zhanchi layer, and cautious Zhanshanggong tradition
Han Dian: Zhan - basic character meanings and surname listing only

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