Korean Surnames
장
張
How it's spelled in English
- Jang(official)
- Chang
Usual hanja
張 — to draw (a bow), to stretch
Well-known clans (bongwan)
인동 장씨
A bongwan is the ancestral home of a clan — two Kims from different bongwan are different families.
Population
- 장(張) 992,721 people, 2.0% of the population
Statistics Korea, 2015 Population and Housing Census
About it
Chang is the older spelling, still common among families who emigrated decades ago.