漢

See also: 汉

Translingual

shinjitai	漢
simplified	汉
traditional	漢

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 氵 + phonetic 𦰩 - name of a river

Han character

漢 (radical 85 水+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 水廿中人 (ETLO), four-corner 3413₄, composition ⿰氵𦰩)

1. the River Han
2. the Chinese people, Chinese language
3. Han Dynasty
4. a surname
5. a man

See also

• 莫

References

• KangXi: page 646, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18068
• Dae Jaweon: page 1055, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1713, character 9
• Unihan data for U+6F22
• Stroke order (mov file)
• Practice writing it

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Cantonese

Hanzi

漢 (simplified 汉, Jyutping hon3, Yale hon3)

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Japanese

Kanji

漢

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. Sino-
2. China

Readings

• On: かん (kan)
• Kun: から (kara), おとこ (otoko)

Compounds

• 漢音
• 漢語
• 漢字 (かんじ, kanji)

• 漢方
• 痴漢 (ちかん, chikan)

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Korean

Hanja

漢 (han) (hangeul 한, revised han, McCune-Reischauer han, Yale han)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

漢 (simplified 汉, Pinyin hàn (han4), Wade-Giles han⁴)

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Compounds

• 漢白玉
• 漢堡 (hànbǎo)
• 漢堡包 (hànbǎobāo)
• 漢藏 (Hàn Zàng) - Sino-Tibetan
• 漢奸
• 漢界
• 漢民
• 漢人 (Hànrén)
• 漢文

• 漢姓
• 漢學 (Hànxué)
• 漢語 (Hànyǔ)
• 漢語拼音 (Hànyǔ pīnyīn)
• 漢語水平考試 (Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì)
• 漢字 (hànzì)
• 漢字編碼
• 漢子
• 漢族 (Hànzú)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

漢 (xɑ̀n¹, xần¹) (¹Tang dynasty pronunciation, per Hugh M. Stimson's T’ang Poetic Vocabulary (1976); this character occurs >4 times in the 700 poems that work covers)

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Min Nan

Han character

漢 (POJ hàn) (han³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

漢 (hán, háng, hớn)

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