Changchien

C3H4A1N1G2C3H4I1E1N1

proper noun

A surname from Mandarin.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

proper nounChangchien (plural Changchiens)

plural Changchiens

  1. A surname from Mandarin.

    Year Zero stars Maureen Sebastian and Louis Ozawa Changchien in the Second Stage Theatre 2010 Uptown Series presentation.

    2010 May 26, Ernio Hernandez, “Cambodian-American Teen Seeks Change in Second Stage Uptown's Year Zero”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Playbill
    3 more examples

    Louis Ozawa Changchien is a Japanese American actor who is casted as Hanzo, one of the people abducted by Predators who must fight for his life in the alien's hunting field on an alien planet.

    2010 January 8, “Interview with Actor Louis Ozawa Changchien on Upcoming Film "Predators"”, in GIGAZINE

    The play begins even before the audience members sit down; they first walk through an exhibit that culminates with a full-size art installation piece (the Play Company requested that details not be revealed here). Then a Chinese artist named Lin Bo (played by Louis Ozawa Changchien) enters and recounts how he was jailed for dissidence.

    2016 August 18, Diep Tran, “Truth, Lies and Chinese Art Inspire ‘a Puzzle Box of a Play’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2016, Theater

    Chen lastly visited 100-year-old former martial artist Changchien Chan Ching-yeh (張簡詹清葉) in Daliao District (大寮).

    2021 October 10, Fang Chih-hsien, Kayleigh Madjar, “Kaohsiung centenarians receive visit from mayor”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2021, Taiwan News, page 3

Origin

  1. Mandarin張簡 /张简
  2. EnglishChangchien

Borrowed from Mandarin 張簡 /张简 (Zhāngjiǎn) Wade–Giles romanization: Chang¹-chien³.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

Changchien. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Changchien

MLA

“Changchien.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Changchien. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Changchien,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Changchien.

Source: Changchien on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.