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.
- The han is a large stable, with a small house attached.
- 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.
- It is divided into two classes of which the first is called A-han, that is,
- 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.
- Accompanying him is my other favorite icon, Hello Kitty in Korean han-bok dress.
- A han is usually a ramshackle shanty that in England would not be thought fit for a cow of good family.
- "Which I call han'some treatment for Mr. Speed, an 'only wish we might retain it at the Centipede as a remembrance.
- "That's what I call a han'some present," admired Uncle Larry in the same hearty voice Mary Rose usually heard from him.
- [14] Southern readers will recognize this and "han'-roomance" as terms used by negroes in playing marbles, -- a favorite game on the plantations
- [14] Southern readers will recognize this and "han'-roomance" as terms used by negroes in playing marbles, -- a favorite game on the plantations Sunday afternoons.
- They continue to study, however, and are allowed to go into the palace, where they are examined in the presence of the Emperor, and those who pass are called han lin, or forest of pencils.