Han, Han dynasty
(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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Han
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
The Chinese ethnicity, when distinguished from other peoples of the Chinese state
• Han Chinese (ethnicity)
Han
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
(astronomy) The star Zeta Ophiuchi in traditional Chinese astronomy, named for this state
A surname.
Han (plural Hans)
A Korean surname.
Han
A First Nations people of Canada and an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group.
The Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Han people, or Hän Hwëch'in, in Alaska and the Yukon.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Han is the 1,182nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 29,847 individuals. Han is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (92.67%) individuals.
• HNA, Nah., ahn, nah
han
(obsolete) plural simple present of have
• HNA, Nah., ahn, nah
Source: Wiktionary
Han, Etym: contr. inf. & plural pres. of Haven.
Definition: To have; have. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Him thanken all, and thus they han an end. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 December 2024
(noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; “thematic vowels are part of the stem”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.