漢

See also 汉

Translingual

shinjitai	漢
simplified	汉
traditional	漢

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 氵 + phonetic 暵

Han character

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

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)

Readings

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

Compounds

漢音 漢語

漢字 (かんじ, kanji, “Chinese character”) 漢方

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

Compounds

漢白玉 漢堡 漢堡包 漢奸 漢界 漢民 漢人 漢文

漢姓 漢學 漢語 漢語拼音 漢語水平考試 漢子 漢字 漢字編碼 漢族

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Middle Chinese

Han character

漢 (*xɑ̀n, xần)

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Min Nan

Han character

漢 (POJ hàn) (han³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

漢 (hán, háng, hớn)