Han

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Han may refer to:

Ethnic groups[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • 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 Han Chinese dynasty 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
  • Daehan Jaeguk or Korean Empire (대한제국; 大韓帝國) (1897–1910), the last monarchial kingdom of Korea

Modern places[edit]

Arts, entertainment, and media[edit]

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Education[edit]

Languages[edit]

Writing systems[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Transportation[edit]

Other uses[edit]

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