Han

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Contents 1 China 2 Nepal, Bhutan 3 Korea 4 Japan 5 Vietnam 6 Elsewhere 7 People 8 Miscellaneous 9 See also

Han may refer to:

[edit] China

• Chinese (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) of China, also known as Han China.
• Kingdom of Han (韓國 Hanguo), one of seven powerful kingdoms during the Chinese Warring States Period.
• Han Zhao (漢趙), one of the Chinese Sixteen Kingdoms, founded by the Liu family.
• Cheng Han (成漢), another of the Sixteen Kingdoms, founded by the Li family.
• Southern Han (南漢 Nanhan), a kingdom during the Chinese Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms,
• Northern Han (北漢 Beihan), a kingdom during the Chinese Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
• Type 091 Han class submarine, the first nuclear powered submarine class (SSN) deployed by the People's Liberation Army Navy.
• Han (汗) or Kehan (可汗), the Chinese transliteration of Khan (title) or Khagan.
• Han, Haan, Hahn or Hann, the Romanized spelling of many Chinese family names: 韓, 韩, 邗, 罕, 寒, 憨, 漢, etc.

[edit] Nepal, Bhutan

• Han, Haan or Hang, means King in Limbu language.

[edit] Korea

• Korea, an abbreviation for Hanguk (한국, 韓國), the South 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 Hangukeo) or Hangul (한글 Hangul)

[edit] Japan

• Han (administrative division) (藩), a term for a 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

[edit] Vietnam

• HAN, the International Air Transport Association code for Noi Bai International Airport serving Hanoi, Vietnam

[edit] 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

[edit] People

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Han (trilobite)
• Han unification (Chinese character glyph unification) in Unicode
• Alternative spelling of title Khan (title), notably in Turkic languages
• Han, a type of Central Asian inn, similar to caravanserai
• Han, an episode of The West Wing, named for the Korean cultural concept Han
• Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen, or HAN

[edit] See also

• Han River (disambiguation)

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