han

1. obsoletepluralpresentplural simple present of have

   Since that ye han had my virginitie,

   1614, William Browne, The Shepheards Pipe

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   They han the fleece, and eke the flesh;

   1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender

   And his alluring Baits suspected han.

   1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence

   Ee lads 'an ya fowt? Nay, we'n not fowt yet.

   1976, “Howfen Wakes” (track 1), in Howfen Wakes, performed by The Houghton Weavers

alternative haan

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

1. Japaneseboard gamesPoints awarded for yaku and doras that double a hand's final value

alternative Hàn

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

   The eclectism of political thought during the Han is reflected in Liu Hsiang's evaluation of Shang Yang.

   1977, Li Yu-ning, Shang Yang's Reforms and State Control in China, M. E. Sharpe, page xxxiii

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   According to the hair-dress it is probably that of a woman. There are some 102 slight traces of polychromy on the white slip. Other heads possessing similar qualities were dug up from early Han tombs in Pao-chi district, Shensi Province.

   1950, Lubor Hájek, Chinese Art, Czechoslovakia: Spring Books, →OCLC, page 41

   Ai quickly became renowned for provocative works, which included smashing a million-dollar Han Dynasty Urn in 1995.

   2021 November 26, Elizabeth Grenier, “Ai Weiwei on surviving captivity”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2021, Arts

   Synonyms: Han Chinese

2. The Chinese ethnicity, when distinguished from other peoples of the Chinese state

   According to the 2000 census, the Han make up 92 percent of China's population; the minority groups combine for about 8 percent (about 106 million people).

   2006, Sheila Hollihan-Elliot, Muslims in China, Mason Crest Publishers, →ISBN, page 55

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   Trade was the major economic link between Tibet and other regions in China. Special economic systems (estate, serfdom) made it impossible for Han immigrants to engage in agriculture and animal husbandry in Tibet. The geographic features of the plateau (high elevation, rarefied air, mountains, etc.) limited the volume of trade and migration between Tibet and other regions.

   1995, Rong Ma, edited by Calvin Goldscheider, Economic Patterns, Migration, and Ethnic Relationships in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China (Population, Ethnicity, and Nation-Building), Westview Press, →ISBN, page 50

   “The people of both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to the Chinese nation, are children of Yandi and the Yellow Emperor,” he told a group of Chinese and Taiwanese reporters who had been allowed to follow him on the trip, referring to mythical emperors revered as founders of China’s dominant Han ethnicity.

   2023 March 29, Han Guan Ng, Huizhong Wu, Olivia Zhang, “Former Taiwan leader Ma views Sun Yat-sen tomb in China tour”, in AP News, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2023

3. A river in central China.

   Hankow, China, is located 600 miles from the coast, on the north bank of the Yang-tse-Kiang River, at its junction with the Han River.

   1902 January 5, L. S. Wilcox, “Conditions in Hankow.; American Trade on the Pacific and the far East”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Sep 2023, ANNUAL, page 23

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   “By transferring such a significant volume of water away from the Han River Basin, the project is depriving the area of the most basic input it will need to develop in the years and decades to come,” said Britt Crow-Miller, a research assistant professor at Portland State University.[…] The Danjiangkou reservoir gets its water from the Han River, a tributary of the Yangtze River which feeds several major cities in central China such as Wuhan, an economic power house in Hubei province sporting a $144 billion GDP.

   2014 September 9, Stian Reklev, Kathy Chen, “Quenching Beijing's thirst may stunt regional growth”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 May 2022, Industry, Materials and Utilities

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. astronomyThe star Zeta Ophiuchi in traditional Chinese astronomy, named for this state
4. A surname.

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   In May 2019, former Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) proposed adopting the Hanyu Pinyin system for the city's street signs at an estimated cost of NT$73 million (US$2.54 million), though the plan was ultimately delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Han left office after losing a recall vote on June 6.

   2020 October 14, Wang Shu-fen, Matthew Mazzetta, “Kaohsiung nixes proposal to adopt Hanyu Pinyin street signs”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 16 Oct 2020, Society

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

   Synonyms: Hangou, Han-kou

plural Hans · alternative Hahn

1. A surname from Korean.

1. A First Nations people of Canada and an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group.

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   In the courtroom, with its massive wooden judicial bench, pot-bellied stove and engravings of outdoor scenes and territory notables on the wall, it was easy to visualize the grizzled sourdoughs, the Han Athabaskan Indians from Eagle Village three miles upriver and the back-country trappers waiting on the hard chairs, fur caps in hand, for the judge to render justice.

   1988 March 20, Mark Olds, “Where the Frontier Spirit Lives On”, in The New York Times (Travel section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015, page 15

2. The Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Han people, or Hän Hwëch'in, in Alaska and the Yukon.