han
IPA: hˈɑn
noun
- Sorrowful resentment, as a part of the Korean cultural identity.
- 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
- A river in central China.
- 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.
- (history) A former canal in China, connecting Hancheng (now Yangzhou) on the Yangtze with Mokou (now Huai'an) on the Huai.
- A surname from Korean.
- 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.
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Examples of "han" in Sentences
- Helck was the son of philologist Hans Helck.
- The emperor was at the pinnacle of Han society.
- Hans happily exchanges the goose for the grindstone.
- Han made a handful of unforced errors throughout the match.
- Han Wudi was anguished he could not rush up and embrace her.
- The most common of these restraint systems is the HANS device.
- In the following segment the audience sees Hans sick and bedridden.
- The Crown Prince in the Han Dynasty was the heir apparent to the throne.
- The main outcome was to reaffirm the superiority in Europe of Hans Nusslein.
- Hans is happy to be rid of the heavy grindstone and being free of all troubles.
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