Han

Han or HAN may refer to:

People

Ethnic groups

• Han Chinese, or Han people (simplified Chinese: 汉人; traditional Chinese: 漢人), the largest ethnic group in China
  • Han Taiwanese (simplified Chinese: 台湾汉人; traditional Chinese: 臺灣漢人), the ethnic group of Taiwanese people who are fully or partially of Han Chinese descent
• Han Minjok, or Han people (한민족): the Korean native name referring to Koreans
• Hän, a First Nations people of Canada

Surname

• Han (Chinese surname)
• Han (Korean surname)
• Jefferson Han (born 1975), American research scientist
• Jiawei Han (born 1949), Chinese-American computer scientist
• Keiko Han (born 1953), Japanese voice actress
• Han Mei (musician), Chinese-Canadian musician
• Raymond Han (1931–2017), American painter

Given name

• Han (given name)

Other

• Han (musician), born Han Ji-sung, a South Korean singer-songwriter, rapper, and record producer, member of Stray Kids
• Hou Han (侯漢) (552), dynasty name used by Hou Jing during his brief usurpation of the Liang dynasty

Fictional and mythological characters

Given name

• Han Fastolfe, in the Elijah Baley Robots series by Isaac Asimov
• Han Lue, from The Fast and the Furious series
• Han Pritcher, in the Foundation universe by Isaac Asimov
• Han Solo, in the Star Wars universe
• Han de Wit, titular character of a 1972 Dutch novel and 1990 movie

Surname

• Han Daewi, in the webtoon The God of High School
• Han Fu (fictional), in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms
• Han Qing-jao, from the Ender's Game series
• Han Tao, in Water Margin
• Han Tzu, from the Ender's Game series
• Han Xiangzi, Chinese mythological figure

Places

Former states

• Han (NW Zhou state) (韓国) (11th century BC – 757 BC), a Chinese state in present-day Shaanxi
• Han (SE Zhou state) (邗国), a Chinese state in present-day Jiangsu
• Han (Warring States) (韓) (403 – 230 BC), a Chinese state during the Warring States period
• Han dynasty (漢/汉) (202 BC – 220 AD), a dynasty split into two eras, Western Han and Eastern Han
  • Shu Han (蜀漢) (221–263), a dynastic state that existed during the Three Kingdoms period
• Han-Zhao (漢趙) (304–329), one of the Sixteen Kingdoms, known as Han (漢) before 319
• Cheng-Han (成漢) (304–347), one of the Sixteen Kingdoms, known as Han (漢) after 338
• Former Shu (前蜀) (907–925), a state during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, known as Han (漢) between 917 and 918
• Southern Han (南漢) (917–971), a state during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
• Later Han (Five Dynasties) (後漢) (947–951), a state during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
  • Northern Han (北漢) (951–979), successor to Later Han, also during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
• Chen Han (漢) (1360–1364), an insurgent middle Yangtze state in the late Yuan dynasty
• Samhan (삼한; 三韓), three ancient confederacies in the southern Korean Peninsula

Modern places

• Hanguk (한국, 韓國) or Han (한, 韓), the South Korean name of Korea
• Han, Eskişehir, Turkey
• Han, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province
• Han River (disambiguation), several rivers
• Han-sur-Lesse, Rochefort, Belgium
• Han-devant-Pierrepont, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
• Han-sur-Meuse, Meuse, France
• Han-sur-Nied, Moselle, France

Languages

• Hän language, an indigenous language of North America
• Han Chinese language, or just Chinese
• Korean language (한국어 Hangug-eo), as known in South Korea
  • Han languages, a group of languages of ancient Korea
• Han, the ISO 639-3 code for the Hangaza language of Tanzania

Writing systems

• Hán, used in Vietnamese orthography
• Han characters, often referred to as Chinese characters

Other

• Hän, a Finnish 3rd person pronoun

Transportation

• Hanwell railway station, in England, station code HAN
• Hindaun City railway station, in India, station code HAN
• Noi Bai International Airport, serving Hanoi, Vietnam, IATA code HAN
• BYD Han (汉), a Chinese passenger car

Other uses

• Han school, Japan, Edo period
• HAN University of Applied Sciences, in the Netherlands
• Han, a robot created by robotics company Hanson Robotics
• Han (cultural), a Korean cultural concept of lament
• Han (inn), also spelled khan, caravanserai
• Han (trilobite), a monotypic genus
• Han, the Chinese name of the star Zeta Ophiuchi
• Han Canal (邗溝), an early component of China's Grand Canal
• Han system (藩), a term for feudal clan or fief in Japan
• Health Alert Network of US CDC
• Home area network, in computing
• Hospitality Association of Namibia (HAN)
• Hydroxylammonium nitrate
• Khan (title), or Han (汗) in Chinese transliteration, originally Central Asian title for a sovereign or military ruler
• Type 091 submarine, Chinese nuclear submarine class
• "Han", a fifth season episode of The West Wing

See also

• Thein Han (basketball) (born 1998), Burmese basketball player
• Hahn (disambiguation)
• Hans (disambiguation)