漢

• In Traditional Chinese, Japanese kyūjitai, Korean hanja and Vietnamese Hán Nôm, the component for this character is written with 廿 on top. Note that the bottom portion is written 口 overlapped by 夫 and not 中 on top of 天.
• In Japanese shinjitai, the component is written with 艹 on top and has one stroke less. Due to Han unification, both traditional Chinese and Japanese shinjitai forms are encoded under the same code point. The appearance of this character will differ depending on the font used.
• In Simplified Chinese, the component is simplified to 又 instead, giving the character 汉 (U+6C49).
• Two compatibility ideographs exist for this character. U+FA47 corresponds to the kyūjitai form of this character while U+FA9A corresponds to the alternative form used in North Korea which is similar to Japanese shinjitai.

漢 (radical 85, 水+11 in Chinese and Korean, 水+10 in Japanese, 14 strokes in Chinese and Korean, 13 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 水廿中人 (ETLO), four-corner 3413₄ or 3418₅, composition ⿰氵⿱廿⿻口夫⿰(GHTKV or U+FA47) or 氵𦰩(J or U+FA9A))

• 𪝳, 𡁚, 𨮟

• 汉 (Simplified Chinese)

• KangXi: page 646, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18068
• Dae Jaweon: page 1055, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1713, character 9
• Unihan data for U+6F22

• Unihan data for U+FA47

• Unihan data for U+FA9A

Historical forms of the character 漢
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hnaːns) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 𦰩 – name of a river.

漢

1. (～水) Han River, a tributary of the Yangtze
2. (Classical Chinese) the Milky Way
3. (～江) Han River, the fourth-longest river on the Korean peninsula
4. (～朝) Han Dynasty
5. Chinese; Chinese people
6. Short for 漢語／汉语 (hànyǔ, “Chinese language”).
7. man; guy; bloke
8. A surname​.

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. Sino-, China
2. man

• Go-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)
• Kun: あや (aya, 漢); おとこ (otoko, 漢)^{←をとこ (wotoko, historical)}; から (kara, 漢)
• Nanori: はた (hata)

From Middle Chinese 漢 (MC hɑn^H), in reference to the Han Chinese ethnic group.

The sense of man arose from usage in Chinese to differentiate between the “civilized” people of the Han Chinese ethnicity versus other ethnic groups.

漢 (hiragana かん, rōmaji kan)

1. man

   さらに悟 (ご)上 (じょう)に得 (とく)悟 (ご)する漢 (かん)あり、迷 (めい)中 (ちゅう)又 (う)迷 (めい)の漢 (かん)あり。

   Sara ni gojō ni tokugo suru kan ari, meichū umei no kan ari.

   Moreover, some men achieve enlightenment and further enlightenment, and some men achieve confusion and further confusion.

漢 (hiragana かん, rōmaji Kan)

1. the name of China during the Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE)
2. name of various Chinese dynasties
   1. the 西漢 (Saikan, “Western Han”) or 前漢 (Zenkan, “Former Han”) (206 BCE – 9 CE)
   2. the 東漢 (Tōkan, “Eastern Han”) or 後漢 (Gokan, “Later Han”) (25–220 CE)
   3. the 蜀漢 (Shokkan, “Shu Han”) (221-263)
   4. the 前趙 (Zenchō, “Former Zhao”) (304–329)
   5. the 成漢 (Seikan, “Cheng Han”) (304–347)
   6. the 南漢 (Nankan, “Southern Han”) (917–971)
   7. the 後漢 (Kōkan, “Later Han”) (947–951)
   8. the 北漢 (Hokukan, “Northern Han”) (951–979)
3. the Han Chinese people
4. the Han River, a tributary of the Yangtze
5. (by extension from the "river" sense) the Milky Way

   Synonyms: 天漢 (Tenkan), 天河 (Tenga), 銀漢 (Ginkan), 銀河 (Ginga), 天の川 (Ama-no-gawa)

6. alternative name for 漢中 (Kanchū, “Hanzhong”)
7. a surname

From Old Japanese.

Originally referred to the Gaya confederacy, an independent state in the south of the Korean peninsula in the years 42-562 CE. Over time, the meaning extended to refer in general to the Korean peninsula and China, expanding further just before and during the Edo period to refer to foreign lands in general.[1][2]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) か​ら [káꜜrà] (Atamadaka – [1])[3][4]
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠ɾa̠]

• (usually China in the Tang dynasty, and foreign lands in general): 唐
• (usually Korea): 韓
• (specifically the Gaya confederacy): 加羅, 伽羅, 迦羅

漢 (hiragana から, rōmaji kara-)

1. element in compounds, referring to things imported from China or Korea, or from other foreign lands

   漢詩 (からうた)、唐歌 (からうた)、唐 (から)揚 (あ)げ、漢音 (からごえ)

   karauta, karauta, karaage, karagoe

   Chinese-style poetry (as opposed to formal waka Japanese-style poetry), Chinese-style poetry, deep-fried chicken or fish (a style introduced by Europeans in the 1600s), “Chinese voice” → the kan'on or Chinese-derived reading for a character

漢 (hiragana から, rōmaji kara)

1. (historical) shortly before and during the Edo period, foreign lands in general

漢 (hiragana から, rōmaji Kara)

1. the Gaya confederacy
2. (archaic) the Korean peninsula
3. (archaic) China, especially during the Han dynasty

• 漢人 (からひと) (Kara hito), 漢人 (からびと) (karabito)

From Old Japanese, in reference to clans purportedly originating from China.[1][3][2] Appears to be cognate with 文 / 紋 / 綾 / 絢 (aya, “a pattern or design; a pattern of diagonally interweaving lines; twill; how something fits together, the reason or background of a thing; skillful expression in color or words; melody, tune”), possibly in distant reference to technologies and cultural practices brought to Japan by the original Chinese immigrants.

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [a̠ja̠]

漢 (hiragana あや, rōmaji Aya)

1. short for 漢氏 (Aya uji): name of one of two ancient clans, purportedly descendants from Han Chinese, and notable historically for major achievements in fields including literature, diplomacy, and finance, among others
   1. 東漢 (Yamato no Aya)
   2. 西漢 (Kawachi no Aya)

Rare alternative spelling for 男 (otoko, “man”), from usage in Chinese to differentiate between the “civilized” people of the Han Chinese ethnicity versus other ethnic groups.

See the 男 entry for the derivation of the reading.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) おとこ​ [òtókóꜜ] (Odaka – [3])[3][5][4]
  • IPA^(key): [o̞to̞ko̞]

漢 (hiragana おとこ, rōmaji otoko, historical hiragana をとこ)

1. (manga slang) Rare spelling of 男 (“man”).
   • 2004 July 7, Watsuki, Nobuhiro, “第だい26話わ　トレーニング・デイ [Chapter 26: Training Day]”, in 武ブ装ソウ錬レン金キン [Armed Alchemy], volume 3, Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 161:

     漢 (おとこ)は背 (せ)中 (なか)で人 (じん)生 (せい)を語 (かた)る！キミのベストポーズでスーパーアピール‼

     Otoko wa senaka de jinsei o kataru! Kimi no besuto pōzu de sūpā apīru‼

     Men show what life is with their backs! Strike your best pose to drive home your point‼

漢 (eum 한 (han))

1. China
2. man

漢: Hán Nôm readings: Hán

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