Han

Han may refer to:

China

• China (漢), an abbreviation or adjectival modifier for things Chinese
• Han Chinese (漢族 Hanzu, 漢人 Hanren), the dominant majority ethnic group of China and overseas Chinese
• Chinese language (漢語 Hanyu) or Chinese characters (漢字 Hanzi) or Chinese written language (漢文 Hanwen)
• Han Dynasty (漢朝 Hanchao, 202 BC – 220 AD), also known as Han China, a Chinese dynasty
• Han (state) (韓國 Hanguo), one of seven powerful kingdoms during the Chinese Warring States Period
• Han Zhao (漢趙, 304–329), one of the Chinese Sixteen Kingdoms, founded by the Liu family
• Cheng Han (成漢, 304–347), another of the Sixteen Kingdoms, founded by the Li family
• Former Shu later called Han (漢 Han, from 917), a kingdom during the Chinese Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
• Southern Han (南漢 Nanhan, 917–971, but called Great Yue until 918 or 919), a kingdom during the Chinese Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
• Northern Han (北漢 Beihan, 951–979), a kingdom during the Chinese Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
• Later Han Dynasty (Five Dynasties) (947–950 CE), in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period
• Han class submarine, or Type 091 submarine, the first nuclear powered submarine class (SSN) deployed by the People's Liberation Army Navy
• Khan (title), or Han in Chinese transliteration, originally Central Asian title for a sovereign or military ruler
• Han (surname), also Haan, Hahn or Hann, the Romanized spelling of many Chinese family names: 韓(韩), 邗, 罕, 寒, 憨, 漢, etc.

Korea

• Korea, an abbreviation for "Hanguk" (한국, 韓國), the Korean name for Korea
• an archaic Korean root meaning "great" or "leader"; transliterated into hanja as 韓, 幹, or 刊; see Names of Korea
• Samhan, three confederacies of chiefdoms on the southern Korean peninsula in the Proto-Three Han Kingdoms Period
• Han (Korean name), a Korean surname (한, 韓 or 漢), also romanized "Hahn"
• Han (cultural), a Korean cultural concept of lament
• Korean language (한국어 Hangug-eo) or Hangul (한글 Hangeul)

Japan

• Han (administrative division) (藩), a term for feudal clan or fief in Japan
• Han, a wooden board hanging throughout a temple complex in a Zen monastery to alert monks of mealtime when out of range of the umpan
• Han characters

Vietnam

• HAN, the International Air Transport Association code for Noi Bai International Airport serving Hanoi
• Han-Viet (Sino-Vietnamese)

Elsewhere

• Han (North American people), a Canadian First Nation
• Hän language, an endangered Native American language spoken by the Hän people
• Han-sur-Lesse, Rochefort, Belgium
• Han, Turkey
• Huns, most notably Attila the Hun

People

Main article: Han (name)

Miscellaneous

• Han (trilobite)
• Han unification (Chinese character glyph unification) in Unicode
• Alternative spelling of title Khan (title), notably in Turkic languages
• Han, the Turkish word for a caravanserai
• Han (The West Wing), an episode of The West Wing, named for the Korean cultural concept (see above)
• Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen, or HAN
• Home Area Network, the set of emerging technologies allowing homeowners to easily manage household energy use; the term is particularly used with reference to technologies interfacing with a smart grid
• Hydroxylammonium nitrate, a rocket fuel oxidizer and monopropellant

See also

• Han River (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Han"
• All pages with titles containing "Han"