han

Meanings

1. plural simple present of have

1. Sorrowful resentment, as a part of the Korean cultural identity.

1. An imperial Chinese dynasty, ruling (with interruptions) from 206 BC to AD 220, marked by the expansion of the Yellow River's Huaxia culture to the recent conquests of the Qin and a flowering of economic, literary, and scientific development
2. The Chinese ethnicity, when distinguished from other peoples of the Chinese state
3. A river in central China.

1. An ancient Chinese county, viscounty, and kingdom of the Zhou dynasty and the Qin–Han interregnum
2. The realm of this former state under other rulers
3. The star Zeta Ophiuchi in traditional Chinese astronomy, named for this state
4. A surname.

1. A former city in Huai'an, Jiangsu, China.
2. A former state in Jiangsu, China under the Zhou dynasty
3. A canal in Jiangsu, China, connecting Hancheng (now Yangzhou) on the Yangtze with Mokou (now Huai'an) on the Huai.

1. A surname from Korean.

1. A First Nations people of Canada and an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group.
2. The Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Han people, or Hän Hwëch'in, in Alaska and the Yukon.

Etymology

From Middle English han, contraction of haven.