Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to:

Acronyms

Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station) Union Station is an intermodal transit station in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. It is operated by the Jackson Transit System and serves Amtrak's '' City of New Orleans'' rail line, Greyhound Lines intercity buses, and is Jackson's main ...

, US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code *

Jabhat al-Nusra Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra ( ar, جبهة النصرة لأهل الشام, Jabhat an-Nuṣrah li-Ahl ish-Sham lit. ''Front of the Supporters of the People of Syria/the Levant''), known as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham ( ar, جبهة فتح ال ...

(JaN), a Syrian militant group *

Japanese Article Number The International Article Number (also known as European Article Number or EAN) is a standard describing a barcode symbology and numbering system used in global trade to identify a specific retail product type, in a specific packaging configurati ...

, a barcode standard compatible with EAN *

Japanese Accepted Name A Japanese Accepted Name (JAN) is the official non-proprietary or generic name given to a pharmaceutical substance by the government of Japan. See also * International Nonproprietary Name (INN) * United States Adopted Name (USAN) * British Appr ...

, a Japanese nonproprietary drug name * Job Accommodation Network, US, for people with disabilities * ''

Joint Army-Navy The Joint Electronics Type Designation System (JETDS), which was previously known as the Joint Army-Navy Nomenclature System (AN System. JAN) and the Joint Communications-Electronics Nomenclature System, is a method developed by the U.S. War Depar ...

'', US standards for

electronic color code An electronic color code or electronic colour code (see spelling differences) is used to indicate the values or ratings of electronic components, usually for resistors, but also for capacitors, inductors, diodes and others. A separate code, the ...

s, etc. * ''

Journal of Advanced Nursing The ''Journal of Advanced Nursing'' (also known as ''JAN'') is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of nursing. It is published by John Wiley & Sons. JAN is a world-leading international peer reviewed journal. JAN targets ...

Personal name

Jan (name) Jan is a form of John that is used in various languages. (See the “Other names” section in this page’s infobox for more variants.) The name is used in Afrikaans, Belarusian, Circassian, Catalan, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Devon dialect, Du ...

, male variant of ''John'', female shortened form of ''Janet'' and ''Janice'' *

Jan (Persian name) Jan ( fa, جان, pronounced or ) is the Persian word for soul, also borrowed into numerous regional languages such as Pashto. It is also used as a diminutive suffix attached to names and titles, and in this case it means " ydear". It is used as ...

, Persian word meaning 'life', 'soul', 'dear'; also used as a name *

Ran (surname) Rǎn is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized Jan in Wade–Giles. Ran is listed 301st in the Song dynasty classic text '' Hundred Family Surnames''. As of 2008, it is the 178th mos ...

, romanized from Mandarin as Jan in Wade–Giles *

Ján Ján is a Slovak form of the name John. Famous people named Ján * Ján Bahýľ, inventor * Ján Čapkovič, football player * Ján Čarnogurský, former Prime Minister of Slovakia * Ján Cikker, composer * Ján Ďurica, football player * Já ...

, Slovak name

Other uses

January January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and is also the first of seven months to have a length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day. It is, on average, the coldest month of the ...

, as an abbreviation for the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar *

Jan (cards) The following is a glossary of terms used in card games. Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to Bridge, Hearts, Poker or Rumm ...

, a term in some card games when a player loses without taking any tricks or scoring a minimum number of points *

Jan (comic book writer) Juan López Fernández (born 13 March 1939), better known by his pen name Jan, is a Spanish comic book writer and artist, most famous for his creation Superlópez. Biography He was born in the town of Toral de los Vados in the province of Le� ...

, pseudonym of Spanish comic book artist Juan López Fernández *

Jan Mayen Jan Mayen () is a Norwegian volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean with no permanent population. It is long (southwest-northeast) and in area, partly covered by glaciers (an area of around the Beerenberg volcano). It has two parts: larger ...

, Norwegian island in the Arctic Ocean * "Jan", a WIGS-produced YouTube drama *"Jan", a short film produced by

Amos Yee use both this parameter and , birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) --> , death_place = , death_cause = , body_discovered = , resting_place = , resting_place_coordinates = ...

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