Associations to the word «Han»

HAN, proper noun. 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

HAN, proper noun. The Chinese ethnicity, when distinguished from other peoples of the Chinese state

HAN, proper noun. An ancient Chinese county, viscounty, and kingdom of the Zhou dynasty and the Qin–Han interregnum

HAN, proper noun. The realm of this former state under other rulers

HAN, proper noun. (astronomy) The star Zeta Ophiuchi in traditional Chinese astronomy, named for this state

HAN, proper noun. A First Nations people of Canada and an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group.

HAN, proper noun. The Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Han people, or Hän Hwëch'in, in Alaska and the Yukon.

HAN CHARACTER, noun. Alternative term for Chinese character

HAN CHARACTERS, noun. Plural of Han character

HAN CHINESE, adjective. Referring to the largest ethnic group indigenous to China

HAN CHINESE, proper noun. The largest ethnic group indigenous to China

HAN SOLO, proper noun. A taxonomic species within the family Diplagnostidae   — agnostid trilobites known only from fossils found in the Ordovician Zitai Formation of southern China.

HAN, noun. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from 206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of Chinese civilization.