漢
简 汉 · 繁 漢Meanings
- man
- Han
- Chinese people
- Han
- Chinese language
- Han dynasty
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 漢 Hàn CC-CEDICT · MandarinHan ethnic group; Chinese (language); the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
- 漢 hàn CC-CEDICT · Mandarinman
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: han4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 16 senses · 1 Cantonese reading
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
hon3
Cantonese word readings for 漢. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- (～水, ～江) Han River, a major tributary of the Yangtze River
- (literary) the Milky Way; by extension, the sky; the heavens
- (～江) Han River, a river in Korea
- (～朝) the Han dynasty
- (historical) the Han state or empire; its court, institutions, territory, or subjects
- (historical) a state, dynasty, or regime named Han, such as 蜀漢／蜀汉 (Shǔ Hàn), 成漢／成汉 (Chénghàn), 南漢／南汉 (Nánhàn), 後漢／后汉 (Hòuhàn), 北漢／北汉 (Běihàn), or the Han state of Chen Youliang
- (historical, by extension) China; the Chinese realm; the Chinese or Han Chinese people; the Sinitic world, especially as contrasted with non-Han peoples
- Han Chinese; the Han ethnicity
- Chinese; Sinitic; Han; of or relating to China, Han Chinese culture, Chinese writing, Chinese learning, or the Chinese language
- man; fellow; guy, often in compounds
- (dialectal, colloquial) husband
- (Hokkien, Xiamen Hokkien, rare) stature; build; body size
- (Wu, Ningbonese, rare) to boil; to cook by boiling
- (Classical Chinese, dialectal, rare) angry; irate
- (dialectal, rare) rash; reckless
- a surname
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