Han

Etymology 1
An early romanization of the, later reinforced by Wade-Giles and pinyin. Originally within present-day Shaanxi and Hubei. As a Chinese dynasty, from the 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 in a city which also became known as Hanzhong, named for its placement along the middle reaches of the river.

Proper noun

 * 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
 * 1) The Chinese ethnicity, when distinguished from other peoples of the Chinese state
 * 1) The Chinese ethnicity, when distinguished from other peoples of the Chinese state

Derived terms

 * Han character
 * Han ideograph
 * Han letter
 * Han logograph
 * Han radical
 * Han syllable

Translations

 * Arabic: أُسْرَة هَان
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish: Han, Han-dynastia
 * French: Dynastie Han
 * German: Han-Dynastie
 * Hindi: हान राजवंश,
 * Japanese:, 漢朝
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, ,
 * Polish:, dynastia Han
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, дина́стия Хань
 * Uyghur: خەن
 * Vietnamese: nhà Hán, Hán triều (漢朝)


 * Arabic:, قَوْمِيَّة اَلْهَان
 * Bouyei: Buxhas
 * Bulgarian:, ха́нци
 * Chinese:
 * Dungan: ханзў, ханжын
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish: han-kiinalaisuus
 * French:
 * German:, Han-Chinesen
 * Greek: ,
 * Hindi: हान चीनी,
 * Japanese: 漢民族, 漢族
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Nuosu: ꉌꈲ
 * Polish: Hanowie, Chińczycy Han,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ха́ньцы,
 * Thai: ชนชาติฮั่น
 * Uyghur: خىتاي,
 * Vietnamese: người Hán (người + 漢), (漢族)
 * Zhuang: Bouxgun

Etymology 2
An early romanization of the pronunciation of, an ancient Chinese placename.

Proper noun

 * 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)  The star Zeta Ophiuchi in traditional Chinese astronomy, named for this state

Etymology 3
Atonal form of the romanization of the  pronunciation of.

Proper noun

 * 1)   under the Zhou dynasty
 * , connecting Hancheng (now Yangzhou) on the Yangtze with Mokou (now Huai'an) on the Huai.
 * , connecting Hancheng (now Yangzhou) on the Yangtze with Mokou (now Huai'an) on the Huai.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 邗國,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 邗溝

Etymology 4
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬 (from Mandarin).

Proper noun

 * 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.

Statistics

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

Noun

 * 1) hen (female chicken or fowl)