Han

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɑn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /hɑn/

From Mandarin 漢／汉 (hàn), from the dynasty founder Liu Bang's short-lived realm in Sichuan and Shaanxi among China's Eighteen Kingdoms, named for the Qin Empire's Hanzhong Commandery, headquartered at a city which also became known as Hanzhong

Han

1. 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
2. The Chinese ethnicity, when distinguished from other peoples of the Chinese state

• Han Chinese (ethnicity)

• hanzi
• hanja
• kanji
• Hán tự

• Chinese character
• Chinese ideograph
• Chinese letter
• Chinese logogram
• Chinese radical
• Chinese syllable

From Mandarin 韓／韩 (hán), an ancient Chinese placename

Han

1. An ancient Chinese county, viscounty, and kingdom of the Zhou dynasty and the Qin–Han interregnum
2. The realm of this former state under other rulers
3. (astronomy) The star Zeta Ophiuchi in traditional Chinese astronomy, named for this state
4. A surname​.

Han

1. A First Nations people of Canada and an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group.
2. The Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Han people, or Hän Hwëch'in, in Alaska and the Yukon.

• ISO 639-3 code haa (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Han, haa

• HNA, Nah., ahn, nah

Han f (plural Heena)

1. hen (female chicken or fowl)

Han

1. A male given name