Han

¹

[hahn]

noun

1. a dynasty in China, 206 b.c.–a.d. 220, with an interregnum, a.d. 9–25: characterized by consolidation of the centralized imperial state and territorial expansion.

2. a river flowing from central China into the Yangtze at Hankow. 900 miles (1,450 km) long.

3. the Chinese people in general, especially those not of Mongol, Manchu, Tibetan, or other non-Chinese extraction.

Han

²

[hahn, huhn]

noun

plural

Hans ,

plural

Han .

1. a member of a group of Indigenous people inhabiting the Yukon River drainage basin near the Alaska-Canada border.

2. the Athabascan language of the Han.

Han

¹

/ hæn /

noun

1. the imperial dynasty that ruled China for most of the time from 206 _bc to 221 _ad , expanding its territory and developing its bureaucracy

2. the Chinese people as contrasted to Mongols, Manchus, etc

Han

²

/ hæn /

noun

1. a river in E central China, rising in S Shaanxi and flowing southeast through Hubei to the Yangtze River at Wuhan. Length: about 1450 km (900 miles)

Word History and Origins

Origin of Han¹

From Kutchin han-gwičin “river dwellers”

Example Sentences

Now, said Han Shen Lin of the Asia Group consulting firm, “It’s China’s bridge out to the world.”

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There’s no indication in the Hans Christian Andersen story that the naked emperor’s exposure made him a better person or ruler.

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Last year, the award went to South Korean author Han Kang, the first Asian woman to win the Nobel.

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In 1938, Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger used it to describe child patients at his Vienna clinic who were verbal, often fluently so, with unusual social behaviors and at-times obsessive focus on very specific subjects.

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Han, the 82-year-old widow of the church's founder Sun Myung Moon, has repeatedly denied the allegations, calling them "false".

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