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Guan (bird) The guans are a number of bird genus, genera which make up the largest group in the family (biology), family Cracidae. They are found mainly in northern South America, southern Central America, and a few adjacent Caribbean islands. There is als ...
, any of a number of bird species of the family
Cracidae The chachalacas, guans, and curassows are birds in the Family (biology), family Cracidae. These are species of tropical and subtropical Central America, Central and South America. The range of one species, the plain chachalaca, just reaches south ...
, of South and Central America *
Guan (surname) Guan may refer to any of at least four Chinese family names (all rendered in Cantonese as Kwan, or also in English as Kuan). The four names are as follows: Guān (關) The most famous of all the Guan surnames due to its association with t ...
, several similar Chinese surnames **
Guān Guan () is a Chinese surname. Guan is 394th in the Hundred Family Surnames. In Hong Kong, the surname is Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation, romanised as Kwan in Cantonese. In Taiwan, the Wade–Giles spelling Kuan is used. In Macao, th ...
, Chinese surname *
Guan (state) Guan (; c. 1046–1040 BC) was an ancient Chinese city-state in present-day Henan. Its capital was Guancheng or Guan City () in present-day Guancheng Hui District of Zhengzhou and its power was limited to the immediate surrounding area. Guan w ...
, ancient Chinese city-state *
Guan (instrument) The ''guan'' () is a Chinese double reed wind instrument. The northern Chinese version is called ''guanzi'' ( 管子) or ''bili'' (traditional: 篳篥; simplified: 筚篥) and the Cantonese version is called ''houguan'' ( 喉管). It is cl ...
, a Chinese wind instrument *
Guan (headwear) Guan (), literally translated as hat or cap or crown in English, is a general term which refers to a type of Headgear, headwear in Hanfu which covers a small area of the upper part of the head instead of the entire head. The was typically a form ...
, a Chinese hat *
Guang people The Guan or Guang people are an ethnic group found almost in all parts of Ghana, including the Akyode people who speak Gikyode, Anii, Krachi people Nkonya tribe, the Gonja, Anum, Larteh, Akposo, Etsii in the Central Region, Nawuri, Nyagb ...
, or Guan people, a people of modern Ghana. *
Mandarin (bureaucrat) A mandarin () was a bureaucrat scholar in the history of China, Korea and Vietnam. The term is generally applied to the officials appointed through the imperial examination system. History and use of the term The English term comes from ...
, bureaucrat scholar in the government of imperial China. *
String of cash coins (currency unit) A string of cash coins (Traditional Chinese: , , ; ) refers to a historical China, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Ryukyu Kingdom, Ryukyuan, and Vietnamese currency unit that was used as a superunit of the Cash (Chinese coin), Chinese cash, Japanese m ...
, an old currency unit used for
Chinese cash coins The cash or ''qian'' was a type of coin of China and the East Asian cultural sphere, Sinosphere, used from the 4th century BCE until the 20th century, characterised by their round outer shape and a square center hole ( zh, c=方穿, poj=hong-chh ...
. * Guan ware, one of the
Five Great Kilns The Five Great Kilns (), also known as Five Famous Kilns, is a generic term for ceramic kilns or wares (in Chinese 窯 yáo can mean either) which produced Chinese ceramics during the Song dynasty (960–1279) that were later held in particularly ...
of
Song dynasty The Song dynasty ( ) was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song, who usurped the throne of the Later Zhou dynasty and went on to conquer the rest of the Fiv ...
China. *
Guan District Guan District is one of the nine districts in Oti Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Hohoe District (within Volta Region Volta Region (or Volta) is one of Ghana's sixteen administ ...
, a district in the
Oti Region The Oti Region is one of the six newly created regions of Ghana in December 2018. The region was carved out of the Volta Region and will be in fulfillment of a campaign promise made by New Patriotic Party. Prior to the 2016 Ghanaian general elec ...
of
Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...
* Guan (Ghana parliament constituency), a parliamentary constituency in Ghana. ; Locations in China * Gu'an County (固安县), Hebei **
Gu'an Town Gu'an Town () is the seat of Gu'an County in central Hebei province, located just south of the border with Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 millio ...
(固安镇), seat of Gu'an County *
Guan County, Shandong Guan County () is a county of western Shandong province, People's Republic of China, bordered by Hebei province to the west. It is administered by Liaocheng City. The population was in 1999. History As an isolated county, with relatively low ...
(冠县) *
Dujiangyan City Dujiangyan () is a county-level city of Sichuan Province, Southwest China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Chengdu. Its north-west region forms a border with southern Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. ...
(灌县), formerly Guan County, Sichuan.


See also

* Kwon * Kuan (disambiguation) * Kwan (disambiguation) * Quan (disambiguation) * Quon (disambiguation) {{Disambiguation