Hán
noun #4,288

Meanings

  1. 1 Korea; Korean
  2. 2 Han (surname)
  3. 3 Han (ancient state)

Examples

Tā shì Hánguó rén.
He is Korean.
Hán lǎoshī jiāo wǒmen shùxué.
Teacher Han teaches us math.

Tips

usage
alone often refers to South Korea in modern usage (short for 韩国). As a surname, it's one of the most common Chinese family names.

Components

radical
wéi
tanned leather
Tanned-leather radical (Kangxi 178) — the right side. Originally meant 'to surround' (depicting feet around an enclosure) before being borrowed for leather. is now used almost exclusively as a surname and as the abbreviation for Korea (韩国).
phonetic
gàn
stem element (early-morning glyph)
The 8-stroke left side — historically related to the early-morning glyph also seen in zhāo and gān. In it provides the syllable hán (drifted from gàn / hàn series). Visually it stacks + + vertically; it has no productive standalone use today and is best memorised as the 'left side of , , '.

Stroke Order

Hán