Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Handan.
Ch'in Shih-huang-ti, the son of King Chuang-hsiang, was born in about 258 bc in Han-tan, the capital of the state of Chao.
1981, Arthur Cotterell, The First Emperor of China, Holt Rinehart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 93 more examples
The good people of Han-tan were in the habit, every New Year's day, of presenting their Governor, Chien Tzü, with a number of live pigeons.
1912, Lionel Giles, Taoist Teachings from the Book of Lieh Tzŭ, London: John Murray, →OCLC, page 118Now we know from the biography that Tzŭ-chʻu's wife had formerly been an ordinary courtesan (chi 姬) of Han-tan, who had been selected by Lü Pu-wei to be his concubine because she "was extremely beautiful and an excellent dancer."
1940, Derk Bodde, Statesman, Patriot, and General in Ancient China (American Oriental Series), volume 17, New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, →OCLC, page 16Lu Pu-wei was a prosperous businessman in the large city of Han-tan in Chao, where he met a prince of Ch’in who was being kept as hostage in the capital.
1965, Cho-yun Hsu, Ancient China in Transition: An Analysis of Social Mobility, 722–222 b.c., Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 45
Origin
- Mandarin邯鄲 /邯郸
- EnglishHan-tan
From Mandarin 邯鄲 /邯郸 (Hándān) Wade–Giles romanization: Han²-tan¹.
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