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汉

漢
hàn
noun #4,197

Meanings

  1. 1 Han (Chinese); the Han ethnicity
  2. 2 man; fellow
  3. 3 the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE)

Examples

HSK 1
你会说汉语吗？
Nǐ huì shuō Hànyǔ ma?
Can you speak Chinese?
HSK 1
他是一个好汉。
Tā shì yī gè hǎohàn.
He is a brave man.

Tips

usage
汉 appears in 汉语 (Chinese language), 汉字 (Chinese characters), 汉族 (Han ethnic group), 武汉 (Wuhan city), and 好汉 (hero / brave man).
culture
The Han Dynasty was one of China's golden ages, lasting over 400 years. The Han ethnic group, named after it, makes up about 92% of China's population.

Components

radical
氵 shuǐ
water (radical form)
Three water drops on the left - the contracted form of 水. Indexing radical: 汉 originally named the Han River (汉水), the major tributary of the Yangtze that gave its name to the Han dynasty and, by extension, the Han people and their language. Same radical family as 河, 海, 江, 湖.
semantic
又 yòu
right hand; again
Right 又 - a stylized right hand, two strokes. In the simplified 汉 this two-stroke piece replaces a much more elaborate phonetic in the traditional 漢 (an opaque graphic of a person under fire). The modern 又 here is a 1956 reform shorthand - graphic placeholder rather than a true sound or meaning contributor.

Stroke Order

汉 hàn