Han
Han may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- "Han", a fifth season episode of The West Wing
- Han (musician), born Han Ji-sung, a South Korean singer-songwriter, rapper, and record producer, member of Stray Kids
- Han Lue, a character in the Fast & Furious franchise
- Han Solo, a character in the Star Wars franchise
Education
[edit]- Han school, Japan, Edo period
- HAN University of Applied Sciences, in the Netherlands
People
[edit]Ethnic groups
[edit]- 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
Names
[edit]- 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"
Places
[edit]Former states
[edit]- 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
Modern places
[edit]- Han, Eskişehir, Turkey
- Han, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province
- Han River (disambiguation), several rivers
- Han-devant-Pierrepont, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
- Han-sur-Lesse, Rochefort, Belgium
- Han-sur-Meuse, Meuse, France
- Han-sur-Nied, Moselle, France
Languages
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Hän, a Finnish 3rd person pronoun
Transportation
[edit]- Hanwell railway station, in England, station code HAN
- Hindaun City railway station, in India, station code HAN
- Noi Bai International Airport, serving Hanoi, Vietnam, IATA code HAN
- BYD Han (汉), a Chinese passenger car
Other uses
[edit]- Han, a robot created by robotics company Hanson Robotics
- Han (cultural), a Korean cultural concept of lament
- Han (inn), also spelled khan, caravanserai
- Han (trilobite), a monotypic genus
- Han Canal (邗溝), an early component of China's Grand Canal
- Han system (藩), a term for feudal clan or fief in Japan
- Health Alert Network of US CDC
- Home area network, in computing
- Hospitality Association of Namibia (HAN)
- Hydroxylammonium nitrate
- Khan (title), or Han (汗) in Chinese transliteration, originally Central Asian title for a sovereign or military ruler
- Type 091 submarine, Chinese nuclear submarine class
See also
[edit]- The Airlords of Han, the sequel to Armageddon 2419 A.D.
- Hahn (disambiguation)
- Hans (disambiguation)