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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 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
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
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
Languages
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
Transportation
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
Topics referred to by the same term