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Han

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Han 1  (hän)
n. pl. Han or Hans
A member of the principal ethnic group of China, constituting about 93 percent of the population, especially as distinguished from Manchus, Mongols, Huis, and other minority nationalities. Also called Chinese, Han Chinese.
[Chinese (Mandarin) Hàn.]
Han 2  (hän)
A Chinese dynasty (206 b.c.-a.d. 220) noted for unifying and expanding its national territory and for promoting literature and the arts.
[Chinese (Mandarin) Hàn.]
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Noun1.HanHan - 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
Han dynasty
dynasty - a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family


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Excepting the one case of seeing her face close, with a strong light on it, nobody who now looked at Magdalen could have suspected for an instant that she was other t han an ailing, ill-made, unattractive woman of fifty years old at least.
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