Jian (治安) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. "year name"), also known as Chi'an, after Kannin and before Manju. This period spanned the years from...

The jian (Mandarin Chinese: [tɕjɛ̂n], Chinese: 劍, English approximation: /dʒjɛn/ jyehn, Cantonese: [kim˧]) is a double-edged straight sword used during...

Sui (隋文帝; 21 July 541 – 13 August 604), personal name Yang Jian (楊堅), Xianbei name Puliuru Jian (普六茹堅), was the founding emperor of the Chinese Sui dynasty...

Three Kingdoms era who eventually established the Eastern Wu state and declared himself its first emperor in 229, whereupon Sun Jian was given the posthumous...

building large structures Jian (era), a Japanese era from 1021 through 1024 Jian Ghomeshi (born 1966/1967), Canadian broadcaster Jian (1986), a novel by Eric...

native Japanese swords by the middle Heian era. Knives were found in Fu Hao's tomb, dated c. 1200 BC. Bronze jians appeared during the Western Zhou. The blades...

reign of Fu Jiān (Emperor Xuanzhao), being the only state of the Sixteen Kingdoms to achieve so. Its capital was Chang'an up to Fu Jiān's death in 385...

Manju (万寿) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, literally "year name") after Jian and before Chōgen. This period spanned the years from July 1024 through...

Cui Jian (Chinese: 崔健; Korean: 최건; born 2 August 1961) is a Beijing-based Chinese singer-songwriter, trumpeter and guitarist. Affectionately called "Old...

The Japanese era name (Japanese: 元号, Hepburn: gengō, "era name") or nengō (年号, year name), is the first of the two elements that identify years in the...