Han may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

* "Han", a fifth season episode of ''The West Wing'' *

Han (musician) Han Ji-sung (; born September 14, 2000), known professionally as Han, is a South Korean rapper and singer-songwriter. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Stray Kids and its production team, 3Racha, both affiliated with JYP Entertainment. ...

, born Han Ji-sung, a South Korean singer-songwriter, rapper, and record producer, member of Stray Kids * Han Lue, a character in the ''Fast & Furious'' franchise *

Han Solo Han Solo () is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise. He was introduced in the 1977 film ''Star Wars (film), Star Wars'', and later appeared in ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980), ''Return of the Jedi'' (1983), ''Star Wars: The F ...

, a character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise

Education

Han school The ''han'' school was a type of educational institution in the Edo period of Japan. They taught samurai etiquette, the classical Confucian books, calligraphy, rhetoric, fighting with swords and other weapons; some also added subjects such as m ...

, Japan, Edo period * HAN University of Applied Sciences, in the Netherlands

People

Ethnic groups

Han Chinese The Han Chinese, alternatively the Han people, are an East Asian people, East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. With a global population of over 1.4 billion, the Han Chinese are the list of contemporary ethnic groups, world's la ...

, or Han people (): the name for the largest ethnic group in China, which also constitutes the world's largest ethnic group **

Han Taiwanese Han Taiwanese, also known as Taiwanese Han (), Taiwanese Han Chinese, or Han Chinese Taiwanese, are Taiwanese people of full or partial ethnic Han Chinese, Han ancestry. According to the Executive Yuan of Taiwan, they comprise 95 to 97 percent of ...

(): the name for the ethnic group of the Taiwanese people who are fully or partially of Han Chinese descent * Han Minjok, or Han people (): the Korean native name referring to

Koreans Koreans are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Korean Peninsula. The majority of Koreans live in the two Korean sovereign states of North and South Korea, which are collectively referred to as Korea. As of 2021, an estimated 7.3 m ...

Hän The Hän, Han or Hwëch'in / Han Hwech’in (meaning "People of the River, i.e. Yukon River", in English also Hankutchin) are a First Nations people of Canada and an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the United States; they are part of the At ...

: one of the First Nations peoples of Canada

Names

Han (name) Han is a name used in many cultures. The Western usage of the name is as a variant of Hans (name), Hans. * Han (Chinese surname) (韓/韩/Hán), also romanized Hon * Han (Korean surname) (韓/한) * Han (given name), a Dutch given name Notable peo ...

, a given name and surname **

Han (Chinese surname) Han () is a common Chinese surname, Chinese surname. The spelling "Han" is based on People's Republic of China, China's pinyin system and so used throughout Mainland China. Spelling can vary from 'Hon' in Cantonese-speaking areas to 'Hang' in Hain ...

, also Haan, Hahn or Hann, the Romanized spelling of many Chinese family names: 漢, 韓(韩), 邗, 罕, 寒, 憨, etc. **

Han (Korean surname) Han () is the typical romanized spelling of the Korean family name 한. Other alternate spellings for include Hahn and Haan. In hanja, it translates to "King”, “Kingdom”, “country" and/or “Korean people”. Han is the oldest name in K ...

, (한, 韓 or 漢), also romanized as "Hahn"

Places

Former states

Han (NW Zhou state) Han was a minor Chinese state under the Zhou dynasty. It was centered on present-day Hancheng in Shaanxi and Hejin in Shanxi. The state was created for a sonknown only as the "Marquess of Han" of the King Wu of Zhou左傳僖公二十四年 in ...

(韓国) (11th century BC – 757 BC), a Chinese state in present-day Shaanxi *

Han (SE Zhou state) Han was a minor chinese state under the Zhou dynasty,'' Shuowen Jiezi'', s.v. "邗": "." located in present-day Jiangsu province. It was established by sinicized refugees from the central plains, who established a new vassal state in the () t ...

(邗国), a Chinese state in present-day Jiangsu *

Han (Warring States) Han was an ancient Chinese state during the Warring States period. Scholars frequently render the name as Hann to clearly distinguish it from China's later Han dynasty. It was located in central China (modern-day Shanxi and Henan) in a region ...

(韓) (403 – 230 BC), a Chinese state during the Warring States period *

Han dynasty The Han dynasty was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–206 BC ...

(漢/汉) (202 BC – 220 AD), a dynasty split into two eras, Western Han and Eastern Han **

Shu Han Han (; 221–263), known in historiography as Shu Han ( ) or Ji Han ( "Junior Han"), or often shortened to Shu ( zh, t=蜀, p=Shǔ; Sichuanese Pinyin: ''Su'' < Middle Chinese: *''źjowk'' < Eastern Han Chinese: *''dźok''), was a Dynasties in ...

(蜀漢) (221–263), a dynastic state that existed during the Three Kingdoms period *

Han-Zhao The Han-Zhao ( zh, s=汉赵, t=漢趙, p=Hàn Zhào; 304–329 AD), or Former Zhao ( zh, s=前赵, t=前趙, p=Qián Zhào), was a dynastic state of China ruled by the Liu ( Luandi) clan of Chuge-Xiongnu ethnicity during the Sixteen Kingdoms per ...

(漢趙) (304–329), one of the Sixteen Kingdoms, known as Han (漢) before 319 *

Cheng-Han Cheng-Han (; 303 or 304 – 347) was a dynastic state of China listed as one of the Sixteen Kingdoms in Chinese historiography. Ruled by the Li clan of the Ba-Di people, its territory was based in what is modern-day Sichuan Province, China. The ...

(成漢) (304–347), one of the Sixteen Kingdoms, known as Han (漢) after 338 * Hou Han (侯漢) (552), dynasty name used by

Hou Jing Hou Jing (; died 26 May 552), courtesy name Wanjing (萬景), was a Chinese military general, monarch, and politician. He was a general of Northern Wei, Eastern Wei, and Liang, and briefly, after controlling the Liang imperial regime for severa ...

during his brief usurpation of the Liang dynasty *

Former Shu Great Shu ( zh, c=大蜀, p=Dàshǔ), known in historiography as the Former Shu ( zh, c=前蜀, p=Qiánshǔ, links=no) or occasionally Wang Shu (王蜀), was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and ...

(前蜀) (907–925), a state during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, known as Han (漢) between 917 and 918 *

Southern Han Southern Han ( zh , t = 南漢 , p = Nán Hàn , j=Naam4 Hon3; 917–971), officially Han ( zh , t = 漢 , links=no), originally Yue ( zh , c = 越 , links=no), was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms that existed during the ...

(南漢) (917–971), a state during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period *

Later Han (Five Dynasties) Han, known as the Later Han () in historiography, was a short-lived imperial dynasty of China that existed from 947 to 951. It was the fourth of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in Chinese history, and th ...

(後漢) (947–951), a state during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period **

Northern Han The Northern Han ( zh, t=北漢, s=北汉, p=Běi Hàn) was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. It was founded by Liu Min (Emperor Shizu) as a continuation of the Later Ha ...

(北漢) (951–979), successor to Later Han, also during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period *

Chen Han Chen Han, officially the Great Han, was a short-lived rebel state that existed in China during the Red Turban Rebellion, in the final phase of the Yuan dynasty. It was founded in Jiangxi in 1360 by General Chen Youliang, who had been ruling ...

(漢) (1360–1364), an insurgent middle Yangtze state in the late Yuan dynasty *

Samhan Samhan, or Three Han (), is the collective name of the Byeonhan, Jinhan, and Mahan confederacies that emerged in the first century BC during the Proto–Three Kingdoms of Korea, or Samhan, period. Located in the central and southern regions o ...

(), three ancient confederacies in the southern Korean Peninsula

Modern places

Han, Eskişehir Han, formerly Hanköy and Hüsrevpaşa, is a municipality and district of Eskişehir Province, Turkey. Its area is 378 km2, and its population is 2,052 (2022). The town lies at an elevation of . The district is surrounded by Çifteler and ...

, Turkey *

Han, Iran Han (, also Romanized as Hān) is a village in Zaboli Rural District, in the Central District of Mehrestan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is ...

, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province *

Han River (disambiguation) Han River may refer to: * Han River (Guangdong) (''Hánjiāng'', 韩江), southeast China, flows into the South China Sea * Han River (Hubei and Shaanxi) (''Hànshuǐ'', 漢水 or ''Hànjiāng'', 漢江), the longest tributary of the Yangtze, China ...

, several rivers *

Han-devant-Pierrepont Han-devant-Pierrepont (, literally ''Han before Pierrepont'') is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France. Before 1997, it was part of the Meuse The Meuse or Maas is a major European river, rising in France ...

, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France * Han-sur-Lesse, Rochefort, Belgium * Han-sur-Meuse, Meuse, France * Han-sur-Nied, Moselle, France

Languages

Hän language The Hän language (alternatively spelled as Haen) (also known as Dawson, Han-Kutchin, Moosehide) is a Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Hän Hwëch'in (translated to ''people who live along the river'', sometimes anglicized as ''Hank ...

, an indigenous language of North America * Han Chinese language, or just Chinese *

Korean language Korean is the first language, native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Koreans, Korean descent. It is the national language of both South Korea and North Korea. In the south, the language is known as () and in the north, it is kn ...

(한국어 ''Hangug-eo''), as known in South Korea **

Han languages The Han languages () or Samhan languages () were the languages of the Samhan ('three Han') of ancient southern Korea, the confederacies of Mahan, Byeonhan and Jinhan. They are mentioned in surveys of the peninsula in the 3rd century found in C ...

, a group of languages of ancient Korea * Han, the ISO 639-3 code for the

Hangaza language Hangaza is a Bantu language spoken by the Hangaza people of Tanzania. It is closely related to and partially intelligible with the languages of Rwanda and Burundi Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in Ea ...

of Tanzania

Writing systems

* Hán, used in Vietnamese orthography *

Han characters Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture. Of the four independently invented writing systems accepted by scholars, they represent the only one ...

(漢字, Pinyin: ''Hanzi'', often referred to as Chinese characters) *

Han unification Han unification is an effort by the authors of Unicode and the Universal Character Set to map multiple character sets of the Han characters of the so-called CJK languages into a single set of unified characters. Han characters are a featur ...

(Han character glyph unification) in Unicode *

Hangul The Korean alphabet is the modern writing system for the Korean language. In North Korea, the alphabet is known as (), and in South Korea, it is known as (). The letters for the five basic consonants reflect the shape of the speech organs ...

(한글 ''Hangeul''), the Korean alphabet *

Hanja Hanja (; ), alternatively spelled Hancha, are Chinese characters used to write the Korean language. After characters were introduced to Korea to write Literary Chinese, they were adapted to write Korean as early as the Gojoseon period. () ...

(한자, 漢字), Han characters used for the Korean language

Other

* Hän, a Finnish 3rd person pronoun

Transportation

Hanwell railway station Hanwell railway station serves the town of Hanwell in the London Borough of Ealing. It is down the line from and is situated between and . All trains serving Hanwell are operated by the Elizabeth line, having taken over the Heathrow Connect s ...

, in England, station code HAN * Hindaun City railway station, in India, station code HAN *

Noi Bai International Airport Nội Bài International Airport in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, is the country’s second largest and busiest international airport for passenger traffic, after Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City. It is currently the mai ...

, serving Hanoi, Vietnam, IATA code HAN *

BYD Han The BYD Han () is a series of full-size sedan (E-segment) manufactured by the Chinese manufacturer BYD Auto since 2020. It is a flagship model of BYD's Dynasty Series passenger vehicles, and was named after the Han Dynasty, the first golden age ...

(汉), a Chinese passenger car

Other uses

* Han, a robot created by robotics company

Hanson Robotics Hanson Robotics Limited is a Hong Kong–based engineering and robotics company founded by David Hanson, known for its development of human-like robots with artificial intelligence (AI) for consumer, entertainment, service, healthcare, and rese ...

Han (cultural) ''Han'' (), or ''haan'', is a concept of an emotion, variously described as some form of grief or resentment, among others, that is said to be an essential element of Korean identity by some, and a modern post-colonial identity by others. The ...

, a Korean cultural concept of lament * Han (inn), also spelled khan, caravanserai * ''Han'' (trilobite), a monotypic genus * Han Canal (邗溝), an early component of China's Grand Canal *

Han system (, "domain") is a Japanese historical term for the Estate (land), estate of a daimyo in the Edo period (1603–1868) and early Meiji (era), Meiji period (1868–1912).Louis Frédéric, Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Han"in ''Japan Encycloped ...

(藩), a term for feudal clan or fief in Japan * Health Alert Network of US CDC * Home area network, in computing * Hospitality Association of Namibia (HAN) * Hydroxylammonium nitrate *

Khan (title) Khan (, , ) is a historic Turkic peoples, Turkic and Proto-Mongols, Mongolic title originating among nomadic tribes in the Eurasian Steppe#Divisions, Central and Eastern Eurasian Steppe to refer to a king. It first appears among the Rouran and ...

, or Han (汗) in Chinese transliteration, originally Central Asian title for a sovereign or military ruler * Type 091 submarine, Chinese nuclear submarine class