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- 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
"According to the hair-dress it is probably that of a woman. There are some 102 slight traces of polychromy on the white slip. Other heads possessing similar qualities were dug up from early Han tombs in Pao-chi district, Shensi Province."
- 2 An ancient Chinese county, viscounty, and kingdom of the Zhou dynasty and the Qin–Han interregnum
- 3 A former city in Huai'an, Jiangsu, China.
- 4 A surname from Korean.
- 5 A First Nations people of Canada and an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group.
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- 6 The Chinese ethnicity, when distinguished from other peoples of the Chinese state
"Trade was the major economic link between Tibet and other regions in China. Special economic systems (estate, serfdom) made it impossible for Han immigrants to engage in agriculture and animal husbandry in Tibet. The geographic features of the plateau (high elevation, rarefied air, mountains, etc.) limited the volume of trade and migration between Tibet and other regions."
- 7 The realm of this former state under other rulers
- 8 A former state in Jiangsu, China under the Zhou dynasty
- 9 The Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Han people, or Hän Hwëch'in, in Alaska and the Yukon.
- 10 A river in central China.
"Hankow, China, is located 600 miles from the coast, on the north bank of the Yang-tse-Kiang River, at its junction with the Han River."
- 11 The star Zeta Ophiuchi in traditional Chinese astronomy, named for this state
- 12 A canal in Jiangsu, China, connecting Hancheng (now Yangzhou) on the Yangtze with Mokou (now Huai'an) on the Huai.
- 13 A surname.
"In May 2019, former Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) proposed adopting the Hanyu Pinyin system for the city's street signs at an estimated cost of NT$73 million (US$2.54 million), though the plan was ultimately delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Han left office after losing a recall vote on June 6."
- 1 Sorrowful resentment, as a part of the Korean cultural identity. uncountable
- 2 imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from 206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of Chinese civilization wordnet
- 1 plural simple present of have form-of, obsolete, plural, present
"They han the fleece, and eke the flesh;"
Etymology
From Middle English han, contraction of haven.
From Korean 한(恨) (han), from Middle Chinese 恨 (MC honH).
An early romanization of the Mandarin 漢 /汉 (Hàn), later reinforced by Wade-Giles and pinyin. Originally a river 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. The usage for the Chinese ethnicity first appeared during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, claiming the Han dynasty as one of the golden ages of Chinese history.
An early romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 韓 /韩 (Hán), an ancient Chinese placename.
Atonal form of the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 邗 (Hán).
From Korean 한(韓) (han). Cognate with English Han (from Mandarin).
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