Han

See also: han and Appendix:Variations of "han"

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hæn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /hɑn/
• Rhymes: -æn, -ɑn

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 漢／汉 (Hàn), from the dynasty founder Liu Bang's short-lived realm in Sichuan and Shaanxi among China's Eighteen Kingdoms, named for the Qin Empire's Hanzhong Commandery, headquartered at a city which also became known as Hanzhong, which is so named for being found on the middle reaches of the Han River.

Proper noun

Han

1. An imperial Chinese dynasty, ruling (with interruptions) from 206 BC to AD 220, marked by the expansion of the Yellow River's Huaxia culture to the recent conquests of the Qin and a flowering of economic, literary, and scientific development
   • 1950, Lubor Hájek, Chinese Art‎^[1], Czechoslovakia: Spring Books, OCLC 13180751, page 41:

     According to the hair-dress it is probably that of a woman. There are some 102 slight traces of polychromy on the white slip. Other heads possessing similar qualities were dug up from early Han tombs in Pao-chi district, Shensi Province.

   • 1977, Li Yu-ning, Shang Yang's Reforms and State Control in China‎^[2], M. E. Sharpe, page xxxiii:

     The eclectism of political thought during the Han is reflected in Liu Hsiang's evaluation of Shang Yang.

2. The Chinese ethnicity, when distinguished from other peoples of the Chinese state
   • 1995, Rong Ma, Calvin Goldscheider, editor, Economic Patterns, Migration, and Ethnic Relationships in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China (Population, Ethnicity, and Nation-Building)‎^[3], Westview Press, →ISBN, page 50:

     Trade was the major economic link between Tibet and other regions in China. Special economic systems (estate, serfdom) made it impossible for Han immigrants to engage in agriculture and animal husbandry in Tibet. The geographic features of the plateau (high elevation, rarefied air, mountains, etc.) limited the volume of trade and migration between Tibet and other regions.

   • 2006, Sheila Hollihan-Elliot, Muslims in China‎^[4], Mason Crest Publishers, →ISBN, page 55:

     According to the 2000 census, the Han make up 92 percent of China's population; the minority groups combine for about 8 percent (about 106 million people).

3. A river in central China.
   • 2014 September 9, Reklev, Stian; Kathy Chen, “Quenching Beijing's thirst may stunt regional growth”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 27 May 2022, Industry, Materials and Utilities:

     “By transferring such a significant volume of water away from the Han River Basin, the project is depriving the area of the most basic input it will need to develop in the years and decades to come,” said Britt Crow-Miller, a research assistant professor at Portland State University. […]
     The Danjiangkou reservoir gets its water from the Han River, a tributary of the Yangtze River which feeds several major cities in central China such as Wuhan, an economic power house in Hubei province sporting a $144 billion GDP.

Synonyms

• Han Chinese (ethnicity)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Han character
• Han ideograph
• Han letter

• Han logograph
• Han radical
• Han syllable

Related terms

• hanzi
• hanja
• kanji
• Hán tự

Translations

dynasty

• Arabic: أُسْرَة هَان‎ f (ʾusrat hān)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 漢 (zh), 汉 (zh) (hàn), 漢朝 (zh), 汉朝 (zh) (hàncháo)

• Finnish: Han, Han-dynastia
• French: Dynastie Han f
• German: Han-Dynastie
• Hindi: हान राजवंश (hān rājvanś), हान (hi) (hān)
• Japanese: 漢 (ja) (かん, kan), 漢朝 (かんちょう, kanchō)

• Khmer: ហាន (km) (haan)
• Korean: 한(漢) (ko) (han), 한나라 (hannara), 한조 (ko) (hanjo)
• Polish: Han (pl), dynastia Han
• Portuguese: han (pt) m pl
• Russian: Хань (ru) f (Xanʹ), дина́стия Хань f (dinástija Xanʹ)
• Uyghur: خەن‎ (xen)
• Vietnamese: nhà Hán, Hán triều (漢朝)

Chinese ethnicity

• Arabic: هَان‎ (ar) m (hān), قَوْمِيَّة اَلْهَان‎ f (qawmiyyat al-hān)
• Bouyei: Buxhas
• Bulgarian: хан (bg) m or f (han), ха́нци pl (hánci)
• Chinese:

  Dungan: ханзў (hanzw), ханжын (hanřɨn)

  Mandarin: 漢族 (zh), 汉族 (zh) (hànzú), 漢人 (zh), 汉人 (zh) (hànrén)

• Finnish: han-kiinalaisuus
• French: Han (fr) m
• German: Han (de), Han-Chinesen pl
• Greek: Χάνας (Chánas), Χαν (el) (Chan)

• Hindi: हान चीनी (hān cīnī), हान (hi) (hān)
• Japanese: 漢民族 (かんみんぞく, kanminzoku), 漢族 (かんぞく, kanzoku)
• Khmer: ហាន (km) (haan)
• Korean: 한족(漢族) (ko) (hanjok)
• Polish: Hanowie, Chińczycy Han, Han (pl)
• Portuguese: han (pt) m pl
• Russian: хань (ru) m or f (xanʹ), ха́ньцы pl (xánʹcy), кита́йцы (ru) m pl (kitájcy)
• Sichuan Yi: ꉌꈲ (hxie mgat)
• Thai: ชนชาติฮั่น
• Uyghur: خىتاي‎ (xitay), خەنزۇ‎ (ug) (xenzu)
• Vietnamese: người Hán (người + 漢), Hán tộc (vi) (漢族)
• Zhuang: Bouxgun

See also

• Chinese character
• Chinese ideograph
• Chinese letter
• Chinese logogram
• Chinese radical
• Chinese syllable

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 韓／韩 (hán), an ancient Chinese placename.

Proper noun

Han

1. An ancient Chinese county, viscounty, and kingdom of the Zhou dynasty and the Qin–Han interregnum
2. The realm of this former state under other rulers
3. (astronomy) The star Zeta Ophiuchi in traditional Chinese astronomy, named for this state
4. A surname.

Etymology 3

From Korean 한 (韓, han). Cognate with English Han (from Mandarin).

Alternative forms

• Hahn

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /hɑn/
• Rhymes: -ɑn

Proper noun

Han (plural Hans)

1. A surname from Korean.

Etymology 4

Proper noun

Han

1. A First Nations people of Canada and an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group.
2. The Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Han people, or Hän Hwëch'in, in Alaska and the Yukon.

Further reading

• ISO 639-3 code haa (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Han, haa

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Han is the 1,182^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 29,847 individuals. Han is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (92.67%) individuals.

Anagrams

• HNA, Nah., ahn, nah

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Noun

Han f (plural Heena)

1. hen (female chicken or fowl)

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Turkish

Han ilçesi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /han/

Proper noun

Han

1. A town and district of Eskişehir, Turkey
2. a male given name

Declension

    declension of Han

	singular	plural
nominative	Han	Hanlar / Han'lar
accusative	Han'ı	Hanları / Han'ları
dative	Han'a	Hanlara / Han'lara
locative	Han'da	Hanlarda / Han'larda
ablative	Han'dan	Hanlardan / Han'lardan
genitive	Han'ın	Hanların / Han'ların

    possessive of Han

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Han'ım	Hanlarım / Han'larım
senin (your)	Han'ın	Hanların / Han'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Han'ı	Hanları / Han'ları
bizim (our)	Han'ımız	Hanlarımız / Han'larımız
sizin (your)	Han'ınız	Hanlarınız / Han'larınız
onların (their)	Han'ı / Hanları / Han'ları	Hanları / Han'ları

Derived terms

• Hanlı