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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
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The Chinese ethnicity, when distinguished from other peoples of the Chinese state
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A river in central China.
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An ancient Chinese county, viscounty, and kingdom of the Zhou dynasty and the Qin–Han interregnum
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The realm of this former state under other rulers
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The star Zeta Ophiuchi in traditional Chinese astronomy, named for this state
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A surname.
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A former city in Huai'an, Jiangsu, China.
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A former state in Jiangsu, China under the Zhou dynasty
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A canal in Jiangsu, China, connecting Hancheng (now Yangzhou) on the Yangtze with Mokou (now Huai'an) on the Huai.
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A surname from Korean.
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A First Nations people of Canada and an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group.
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The Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Han people, or Hän Hwëch'in, in Alaska and the Yukon.
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Sorrowful resentment, as a part of the Korean cultural identity.
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plural simple present of have
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Usage: form-of, obsolete, plural, present
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imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from 206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of Chinese civilization
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Broader terms: dynasty
History
An early romanization of the Mandarin 漢 /汉 (Hàn), later reinforced by Wade-Giles and pinyin. Originally a river within present-day Shaanxi and Hubei. As a Chinese dynasty, from the founder Liu Bang's short-lived realm in Sichuan and Shaanxi among China's Eighteen Kingdoms, named for the Qin Empire's Hanzhong Commandery, headquartered in a city which also became known as Hanzhong, named for its placement along the middle reaches of the river. The usage for the Chinese ethnicity first appeared during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, claiming the Han dynasty as one of the golden ages of Chinese history.
An early romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 韓 /韩 (Hán), an ancient Chinese placename.
Atonal form of the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 邗 (Hán).
From Korean 한(韓) (han). Cognate with English Han (from Mandarin).
From Korean 한(恨) (han), from Middle Chinese 恨 (MC honH).
From Middle English han, contraction of haven.
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