Han

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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