张扬
zhāng yáng · HSK 7
to display ostentatiously
🦚 张 = stretch open + 扬 = raise up = to display openly, show off
张 means to stretch or open out; 扬 means to raise or lift high. Together they mean flaunting something out in the open. Same characters name the film director Zhang Yang (b. 1967).
张 — bow 弓 + long 长 (phonetic)
张 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The left side 弓 (bow) gives the meaning, originally referring to stringing or drawing a bow. The right side 长 supplies the sound. From 'draw a bow' it extended to 'stretch, open, spread,' and is now also a very common surname.
扬 — hand radical 扌 + 昜 (rising sun)
扬 is a semantic-phonetic compound: the hand radical 扌 gives the meaning (an action done with the hand), while 昜 (sun rising over the horizon) supplies the sound 'yáng'. The original sense was to raise or lift up, which broadened to 'spread, scatter, make known'. The modern simplified form replaces the older 揚.