HAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Han mean? 

• HAN (noun)
  The noun HAN has 1 sense:

1. imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from 206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of Chinese civilization

  Familiarity information: HAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from 206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of Chinese civilization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Han; Han dynasty

Hypernyms ("Han" is a kind of...):

dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)

 Context examples 

Mean life-span of BDII/Han 33.6 +/-4.7 months in males and 22.5+/-4.4 months in females, with 91% of females developing endometrial carcinomas, but with a more varied range of tumors in males.

(BDII, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

The scientists analyzed SNPs from 191 Inuit and compared them with SNPs from 60 Europeans and 44 Han Chinese that were part of other genetic variation studies.

(Genetic Adaptations to Diet and Climate, NIH)

I'm in good employ, you know, Mas'r Davy, and I han't no way now of spending what I gets.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

An ICP34.5-, ICP47-deleted, oncolytic herpes simplex type-1 virus (HSV-1) isolated from the mouth of an HSV-1-infected patient of Chinese Han ethnicity, and encoding the immunostimulating factor cytokine granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) with potential immunostimulating and antineoplastic activities.

(Oncolytic Herpes Simplex Virus-1-encoding GM-CSF, NCI Thesaurus)

One SNP was the same in almost all the Inuit, but only about 2% of the Europeans and 16% of the Han Chinese had it.

(Genetic Adaptations to Diet and Climate, NIH)

About 12% of aged male BDII/Han develop diverticula of the stomach (Kaspareit-Rittinghausen and Deerberg 1987).

(BDII, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Mas'r Davy, he added; answering, as I think, my look; you han't no call to be afeerd of me: but I'm kiender muddled; I don't fare to feel no matters,—which was as much as to say that he was not himself, and quite confounded.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)