Han

Han may refer to:

Ethnic groups

 * Han Chinese, or Han people : the name for the largest ethnic group in China, which also constitutes the world's largest ethnic group
 * Han Taiwanese : 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

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
 * 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, three ancient confederacies in the southern Korean Peninsula; also refers to the Three Kingdoms of Korea
 * Byeonhan confederacy
 * Jinhan confederacy
 * Mahan confederacy
 * Daehan Jaeguk or Korean Empire (1897–1910), the last monarchial kingdom of Korea

Modern places

 * Daehan Minguk, the South Korean name for Republic of Korea
 * Hanguk, the Korean name for Korea, often referring to the country South Korea
 * Han-sur-Lesse, Rochefort, Belgium
 * Han-sur-Meuse, Meuse, France
 * Han-devant-Pierrepont, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
 * Han-sur-Nied, Moselle, France
 * Han, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province
 * Han, Eskişehir, Turkey

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Han Solo, a character in the Star Wars franchise
 * Han Lue, a character in the Fast & Furious franchise
 * The Airlords of Han, the sequel to Armageddon 2419 A.D.
 * "Han", a fifth season episode of The West Wing

Names

 * Han (name), a given name and surname
 * Han (Chinese surname), also Haan, Hahn or Hann, the Romanized spelling of many Chinese family names: 漢, 韓(韩), 邗, 罕, 寒, 憨, etc.
 * Han (Korean surname), (한, 韓 or 漢), also romanized as "Hahn"

Education

 * Han school, Japan, Edo period
 * HAN University of Applied Sciences, in the Netherlands

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 (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

 * Hän, a Finnish 3rd person pronoun

Transportation

 * Hanwell railway station, in England
 * Hindaun City railway station, in India
 * Noi Bai International Airport, serving Hanoi, Vietnam
 * BYD Han (汉), a Chinese passenger car

Other uses

 * Khan (title), or Han (汗) in Chinese transliteration, originally Central Asian title for a sovereign or military ruler
 * Han system (藩), a term for feudal clan or fief in Japan
 * Han (cultural), a Korean cultural concept of lament
 * Han Canal (邗溝), an early component of China's Grand Canal
 * Han (inn), also spelled khan, caravanserai
 * Han (trilobite), a monotypic genus
 * Health Alert Network of US CDC
 * Home network, or home area network, in computing
 * Hospitality Association of Namibia
 * Hydroxylammonium nitrate
 * Type 091 submarine, Chinese nuclear submarine class
 * Hanson Robotics, a robotics company that created the robot Han