Han

Han may refer to:

Ethnic groups

• Han Chinese, or Han people (simplified Chinese: 汉人; traditional Chinese: 漢人): the name for the largest ethnic group in China, which also constitutes the world's largest ethnic group
  • Han Taiwanese (simplified Chinese: 台湾汉人; traditional Chinese: 臺灣漢人): the name for the ethnic group of the Taiwanese people who are fully or partially of Han Chinese descent
• Han Minjok, or Han people (한민족): the Korean native name referring to Koreans
• Hän: one of the First Nations peoples of Canada

Former states

• Han (NW Zhou state) (韓国) (11th century BC – 757 BC), a Chinese state in present-day Shaanxi
• Han (SE Zhou state) (邗国), a Chinese state in present-day Jiangsu
• Han (Warring States) (韓) (403 – 230 BC), a Chinese state during the Warring States period
• Han dynasty (漢/汉) (202 BC – 220 AD), a dynasty split into two eras, Western Han and Eastern Han
  • Shu Han (蜀漢) (221–263), a dynastic state that existed during the Three Kingdoms period
• Han-Zhao (漢趙) (304–329), one of the Sixteen Kingdoms, known as Han (漢) before 319
• Cheng-Han (成漢) (304–347), one of the Sixteen Kingdoms, known as Han (漢) after 338
• Hou Han (侯漢) (552), dynasty name used by Hou Jing during his brief usurpation of the Liang dynasty
• Former Shu (前蜀) (907–925), a state during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, known as Han (漢) between 917 and 918
• Southern Han (南漢) (917–971), a state during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
• Later Han (Five Dynasties) (後漢) (947–951), a state during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
  • Northern Han (北漢) (951–979), successor to Later Han, also during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
• Chen Han (漢) (1360–1364), an insurgent middle Yangtze state in the late Yuan dynasty
• Samhan (삼한; 三韓), three ancient confederacies in the southern Korean Peninsula; also refers to the Three Kingdoms of Korea
  • Byeonhan confederacy (변한; 弁韓)
  • Jinhan confederacy (진한; 辰韓)
  • Mahan confederacy (마한; 馬韓)
• Daehan Jaeguk or Korean Empire (대한제국; 大韓帝國) (1897–1910), the last monarchial kingdom of Korea

Modern places

• Daehan Minguk (대한민국; 大韓民國), the South Korean name for Republic of Korea
• Hanguk (한국; 韓國), the Korean name for Korea, often referring to the country South Korea
• Han-sur-Lesse, Rochefort, Belgium
• Han-sur-Meuse, Meuse, France
• Han-devant-Pierrepont, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
• Han-sur-Nied, Moselle, France
• Han, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province
• Han, Eskişehir, Turkey

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Han Solo, a character in the Star Wars franchise
• Han Lue, a character in the Fast & Furious franchise
• The Airlords of Han, the sequel to Armageddon 2419 A.D.
• "Han", a fifth season episode of The West Wing

Names

• Han (name), a given name and surname
  • Han (Chinese surname), also Haan, Hahn or Hann, the Romanized spelling of many Chinese family names: 漢, 韓(韩), 邗, 罕, 寒, 憨, etc.
  • Han (Korean surname), (한, 韓 or 漢), also romanized as "Hahn"

Education

• Han school, Japan, Edo period
• HAN University of Applied Sciences, in the Netherlands

Languages

• Hän language, an indigenous language of North America
• Han Chinese language, or just Chinese
• Korean language (한국어 Hangug-eo), as known in South Korea
  • Han languages, a group of languages of ancient Korea
• Han, the ISO 639-3 code for the Hangaza language of Tanzania

Writing systems

• Hán, used in Vietnamese orthography
• Han characters (漢字, Pinyin: Hanzi, often referred to as Chinese characters)
• Han unification (Han character glyph unification) in Unicode
• Hangul (한글 Hangeul), the Korean alphabet
• Hanja (한자, 漢字), Han characters used for the Korean language

Other

• Hän, a Finnish 3rd person pronoun

Transportation

• Hanwell railway station, in England
• Hindaun City railway station, in India
• Noi Bai International Airport, serving Hanoi, Vietnam
• BYD Han (汉), a Chinese passenger car

Other uses

• Khan (title), or Han (汗) in Chinese transliteration, originally Central Asian title for a sovereign or military ruler
• Han system (藩), a term for feudal clan or fief in Japan
• Han (cultural), a Korean cultural concept of lament
• Han Canal (邗溝), an early component of China's Grand Canal
• Han (inn), also spelled khan, caravanserai
• Han (trilobite), a monotypic genus
• Health Alert Network of US CDC
• Home network, or home area network, in computing
• Hospitality Association of Namibia
• Hydroxylammonium nitrate
• Type 091 submarine, Chinese nuclear submarine class
• Hanson Robotics, a robotics company that created the robot Han

See also

• Han River (disambiguation)
• Hahn (disambiguation)
• Hans (disambiguation)