Han

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

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /hɑn/
  • (US) IPA(key): /hɑn/

Etymology 1

From Mandarin (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

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
  2. The Chinese ethnicity, when distinguished from other peoples of the Chinese state
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Etymology 2

From Mandarin (hán), an ancient Chinese placename

Proper noun

Han

  1. An ancient Chinese county, viscounty, and kingdom of the Zhou dynasty and the QinHan 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

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.

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Plautdietsch

Noun

Han f (plural Heena)

  1. hen (female chicken or fowl)

Turkish

Proper noun

Han

  1. A male given name
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