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han¹
- /hæn/
- /heɪn/
- /hən/ unstressed
Rhymes with -æn, -eɪn
Where it comes from
From Middle English han, contraction of haven.
verb
- plural simple present of have They han the fleece, and eke the flesh;
han²
Where it comes from
From Korean 한(恨) (han), from Middle Chinese 恨 (MC honH).
noun haan
- Sorrowful resentment, as a part of the Korean cultural identity.
Han³
- /hæn/ UK
- /han/ British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales
- /hɑn/ US
Rhymes with -æn, -ɑn
Where it comes from
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.
proper noun Hàn
- 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.
- 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.)
- 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.
Han⁴
- /hæn/ UK
- /han/ British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales
- /hɑn/ US
Rhymes with -æn, -ɑn
Where it comes from
An early romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 韓 /韩 (Hán), an ancient Chinese placename.
proper noun
- An ancient Chinese county, viscounty, and kingdom of the Zhou dynasty and the Qin–Han interregnum
- The realm of this former state under other rulers
- The star Zeta Ophiuchi in traditional Chinese astronomy, named for this state
- 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 J
Han⁵
- /hæn/ UK
- /han/ British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales
- /hɑn/ US
Rhymes with -æn, -ɑn
Where it comes from
Atonal form of the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 邗 (Hán).
proper noun
- A former city in Huai'an, Jiangsu, China.
- A former state in Jiangsu, China under the Zhou dynasty
- A canal in Jiangsu, China, connecting Hancheng (now Yangzhou) on the Yangtze with Mokou (now Huai'an) on the Huai.
Han⁶
- /hɑn/ US
- /hæn/ UK
- /han/ British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales
Rhymes with -ɑn, -æn
Where it comes from
From Korean 한(韓) (han). Cognate with English Han (from Mandarin).
proper noun Hans · Hahn
- A surname from Korean.
Han⁷
- /hæn/ UK
- /han/ British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales
- /hɑn/ US
Rhymes with -æn, -ɑn
proper noun
- A First Nations people of Canada and an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group. In the courtroom, with its massive wooden judicial bench, pot-bellied stove and engravings of outdoor scenes and territory notables on the wall, it was easy to visualize the grizzled sourdoughs, the Han Athabaskan Indians from Eagle Village three miles upriver and the back-country trappers waiting o
- The Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Han people, or Hän Hwëch'in, in Alaska and the Yukon.
