Chou Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Woman (nǚ) Character: Zhang Kangxi stroke count: 14 Page 269, Entry 31 Broad Rimes (Guangyun), Compendium of Rimes (Jiyun), and Collected Rimes (Yunhui) provide the pronunciation zhur liang; Correct Rimes (Zhengyun) provides the pronunciation zhi liang. Pronounced zhang. The parents of a husband. Du Fu, New Marriage Farewell (Xinhun Bie): My status is not yet clearly defined, how can I bow to my parents-in-law. Commonly written as zhang. Also, a husband's elder brother is called xiongzhang. Sometimes also written in a variant form (chang).