 zhang is the pinyin romanization of the very common chinese surname written  in simplified characters and  traditionally. it is spoken in the first tone: zhÄng. it is also the pinyin romanization of the less-common surname  (also zhÄng).  was listed 24th in the famous song-era hundred family surnames. today, it is one of the most common surnames in the world and  was listed by the people's republic of china's national citizen id information system as the third-most-common surname in mainland china in april 2007, with 87.50 million bearers.xinhua. "å¬å®é¨ç»è®¡åææ¾ç¤ºï¼çå§æä¸ºæå½ç¬¬ä¸å¤§å§." people's daily. "chinese surname shortage sparks rethink." a commonly cited but erroneous factoid in the 1990 guinness book of records listed it as the world's most common surname,mcfarlan, donald. 1990 guinness book of world records. sterling pub. co., 2001. isbn 189205101x. but no comprehensive information from china was available at the time and more recent editions have not repeated the claim. ==romanization==  () and  are also commonly romanized as chang on taiwan and among the chinese diaspora using the older wade-giles system. both are also romanized as cheung in hong kong; cheong in macao;teo and teoh in teochew; chong in hakka; tsan and tsaon among wu languages like shanghainese; [[tong (surn
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