Han may refer to:

People

Ethnic groups

  • Han Chinese, or Han people (), the largest ethnic group in China
  • Han Taiwanese (), the ethnic group of Taiwanese people who are fully or partially of Han Chinese descent
  • Han Minjok, or Han people (): 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 (), three ancient confederacies in the southern Korean Peninsula

Modern places

  • Hanguk (, ) or Han (, ), 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)