Definitions for "Zheng"
Keywords:  hanyu, cheng, giles, chinese, pinyin
(jung) In traditional Chinese medicine, a way of diagnosing disease based on observing a set of signs and symptoms. A practitioner checks Zheng by looking at the patient; asking questions; feeling the pulse, organs, and tissues; listening to body sounds; and smelling the body.
Zheng (Hanyu Pinyin) (鄭/郑) or Cheng (Wade-Giles) is a Chinese surname. It is currently the 22nd most common of Chinese surnames or belongs to the second major group of ten surnames which makes up more than 10% of the Chinese population, behind the first group which makes up 40% of the population. The ranking varies according to different sources.
Keywords:  henan, huan, zhou, dukes, took
Zheng (é„­) was a Zhou city-state in the middle of ancient China, modern Henan Province. Zheng was founded in 806 BC by Duke Huan of Zheng. Duke Huan of Zheng was named Ji You and all subsequent dukes took the name Ji.