Meaning of Han | Babel Free

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1. Alternative spelling of Han (etymology 1).
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2. 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
3. Sorrowful resentment, as a part of the Korean cultural identity.
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4. An ancient Chinese county, viscounty, and kingdom of the Zhou dynasty and the Qin–Han interregnum
5. A former city in Huai'an, Jiangsu, China.
6. A surname from Korean.
7. A First Nations people of Canada and an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group.
8. The Chinese ethnicity, when distinguished from other peoples of the Chinese state
9. The realm of this former state under other rulers
10. A former state in Jiangsu, China under the Zhou dynasty
11. The Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Han people, or Hän Hwëch'in, in Alaska and the Yukon.
12. A river in central China.
13. The star Zeta Ophiuchi in traditional Chinese astronomy, named for this state
14. A canal in Jiangsu, China, connecting Hancheng (now Yangzhou) on the Yangtze with Mokou (now Huai'an) on the Huai.
15. A surname.

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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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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).”

““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.”

“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.”

““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.”

“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.”

“The “northern dialects” are in English usually called Mandarin dialects (a translation of the older term guānhuà 官話 /官话 (guānhuà) ‘officials’ speech’), though “Mandarin” is sometimes also used in a narrower sense to denote standard Mandarin or pǔtōnghuà. These dialects are spoken by over 70% of the Hàn population, in about three-fourths of the Hàn-speaking area, including all areas of Hàn settlement north of the Chángjiāng (Yangtze) and part of its southern bank, and the southwestern provinces of Sìchuān (Szechwan), Yúnnán, and Guìzhōu (Kweichow).”

“Introduced in Late Springs and Autumns and limited at first to rulers’ tombs, burial mounds were extended to the tombs of lower-ranking individuals in some areas after the middle of the Warring States period, but they did not become common until Hàn times, when their shape changed from square to round. Cosmic concerns are also, in my opinion, the unifying theme of much of the manuscript literature recovered in Warring States and early Hàn tombs.”

“The Hàn Dynasty (202 b.c. to a.d. 221) exhibited many of the cultural refinements of life that we regard today as typical of classic Chinese life. Silk, lacquer, and the writing brush appeared. We know much about the Hàn Chinese because of their custom of burying with their dead an abundance of personal goods, domestic articles, and little ceramic models portraying daily life. Hàn decoration is rich in geometric motifs, such as the zigzag, bands and lozenges.”

“The Tang house’s respect for non-Hàn burial customs both within and beyond the Chinese heartland was documented.”

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