韓
简 韩 · 繁 韓Meanings · hon4
- (adjective) Korean
Meanings · hon4
- Han, one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 战国七雄
- Korea from the fall of the Joseon dynasty in 1897
- Korea, esp. South Korea 大韩民国
- surname Han
- the curb
- fence for a well
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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:
- 韓 Hán CC-CEDICT · MandarinHan, one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄; Korea from the fall of the Joseon dynasty in 1897; Korea, esp. South Korea 大韓民國; surname Han
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: Han2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
hon4
Cantonese word readings for 韓. 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
- (obsolete) a fence or railing surrounding a well; a puteal
- (historical) Han, a minor state enfeoffed by the Zhou dynasty, later destroyed by Jin
- (historical) Han, one of the Seven Warring States, later conquered by Qin in 230 BCE
- (astronomy) the star Zeta Ophiuchi in traditional Chinese astronomy, named after the state
- (historical) Samhan, the three ancient confederacies of Mahan, Byeonhan, and Jinhan in the southern Korean Peninsula
- (historical) Korea; specifically, the Korean Empire from 1897 to 1910; short for 大韓帝國／大韩帝国 (Dàhán Dìguó)
- (abbreviation, alt-of) short for 韓國／韩国 (Hánguó, “Korea, especially South Korea”)
- a surname
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