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Han may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

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  • "Han", a fifth season episode of The West Wing
  • Han (musician), born Han Ji-sung, a South Korean singer-songwriter, rapper, and record producer, member of Stray Kids
  • Han Lue, a character in the Fast & Furious franchise
  • Han Solo, a character in the Star Wars franchise

Education

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People

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Ethnic groups

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  • Han Chinese, or Han people (simplified Chinese: 汉人; traditional Chinese: 漢人): the name for the largest ethnic group in China, which also constitutes the world's largest ethnic group
    • Han Taiwanese (simplified Chinese: 台湾汉人; traditional Chinese: 臺灣漢人): the name for the ethnic group of the 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: one of the First Nations peoples of Canada

Names

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Places

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Former states

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  • 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
  • Hou Han (侯漢) (552), dynasty name used by Hou Jing during his brief usurpation of the Liang dynasty
  • 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

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Languages

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Writing systems

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  • Hán, used in Vietnamese orthography
  • Han characters (漢字, Pinyin: Hanzi, often referred to as Chinese characters)
  • Han unification (Han character glyph unification) in Unicode
  • Hangul (한글 Hangeul), the Korean alphabet
  • Hanja (한자, 漢字), Han characters used for the Korean language

Other

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Transportation

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Other uses

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See also

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