Shu Han

[shoo hahn]

noun

1. a dynasty that ruled in China a.d. 221–63.

Example Sentences

A cartographer assumes Alina was born in Shu Han.

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We know nothing of Shu Han, or its culture, and neither does Alina.

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In her opening voiceover, Alina even says that she’s never felt welcome in her homeland of Ravka, because she looks like her mother and her mother looked like the enemy: the Shu, from Shu Han, a fantasy analogue for an amalgam of Asian countries.

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That means Alina has Shu Han ancestry, referring to a fictional border country in the Grisha trilogy that takes after the nations of Central Asia.

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“Van Eck said the Council gave Yul-Bayur a code word when they first tried to get him out of Shu Han so he’d know who to trust: Sesh-uyeh. It will tell him we’ve been sent by Kerch.”

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