It is a Chinese surname. it is pronounced Chang and there is also the surname Chang. In Chinese, the word refers to a net that is used to catch birds in flight. Zhang is the name of star and asteroid in Astronomy. The star belongs to the constellation Hydra and is known as u Hydrae, Ípsilon Hydrae or 34 Hydrae (In Chinese astronomy it belongs to the constellation Zhang). The asteroid (1802) Zhang, is also known as Zhang Heng, which is the name of the Chinese astronomer to whom it was dedicated. It is clarified that there is also another asteroid called Zhang, Zhang Yuzhe or Y. C Chang (3789), discovered by this other Chinese astronomer and which has also been called Zhongguo, which in Mandarin means China.
