hàn

the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)

Han ethnic group; Chinese (language); man

water (氵) + hand (又) = the Han River, then the Han people

汉 originally referred to the Han River, a major waterway in central China. The Han dynasty took its name from this river, and over centuries the dynasty's name extended to the ethnic group and language it came to represent.

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Right handSemantic
WaterSemantic

他是族人,会说汉语。

tā shì hàn zú rén, huì shuō hàn yǔ.

He is a Han ethnic person and can speak Chinese.

朝是中国历史上一个很重要的朝代。

hàn cháo shì zhōng guó lì shǐ shàng yī gè hěn zhòng yào de cháo dài.

The Han dynasty is a very important dynasty in Chinese history.

Words with 汉

汉族

hàn zú

Han ethnic group

通用汉字标准交换码

tōng yòng hàn zì biāo zhǔn jiāo huàn mǎ

abbr. to 通用碼|通用码[Tong1 yong4 ma3]

醉汉

zuì hàn

intoxicated man

野汉子

yě hàn zi

woman's lover

银汉

yín hàn

also called 銀河|银河[Yin2 he2]

铮铮铁汉

zhēng zhēng tiě hàn

a strong and determined man (idiom)

门外汉

mén wài hàn

layman

关汉卿

guān hàn qīng

Guan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家

阿尔汉格尔斯克州

ā ěr hàn gé ěr sī kè zhōu

Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia

阿罗汉

ā luó hàn

arhat (Sanskrit)

霄汉

xiāo hàn

the sky

饱汉不知饿汉饥

bǎo hàn bù zhī è hàn jī

The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).

More characters with 氵