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Chinese language
HSK 1
Hallasan Mountain or Mount Halla, highest mountain in South Korea
Hanyu Da Cidian, the largest Chinese dictionary, with over 375,000 word entries, first published 1986-1994
potbelly
Hanbin District of Ankang City 安康市, Shaanxi
Nottingham (city in England)
heroes
traditional Han Chinese attire (including various styles of clothing worn by the Han ethnic group before the Qing Dynasty, and in the 21st century, revived as part of a cultural movement) / clothing styles of the Han dynasty
white marble / a type of white marble used for building and sculpting
Nottinghamshire (English county)
lit. until you reach the Great Wall, you're not a proper person; fig. to get over difficulties before reaching the goal
man (i.e. manly, masculine)
to sinicize / sinicization / (software) Chinese localization
English-Chinese parallel text
a real man doesn't boast about his past achievements (idiom)
Chinese character(s)
HSK 1
History of Eastern Han (later Han), third of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Fan Ye 范曄|范晔 in 445 during Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋, 120 scrolls
Robin Hood (English 12th century folk hero)
Hankou, part of Wuhan 武漢|武汉 at the junction of Han river and Changjiang in Hubei
Burger King (fast food restaurant)
Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
Tian Han (1898-1968), author of the words of the PRC national anthem March of the Volunteer Army 義勇軍進行曲|义勇军进行曲
Han ethnic group
Standard Interchange Code for Generally Used Chinese Characters, a character encoding standard of Taiwan 1986-1992, aka CNS 11643-1986, where CNS stands for Chinese National Standard / abbr. to 通用碼|通用码
Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) / refers to the Western Han and Eastern Han
History of the Former Han Dynasty, second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Ban Gu 班固 in 82 during Eastern Han (later Han), 100 scrolls
(idiom) burly chap; husky fellow
Wuhan, sub-provincial city and capital of Hubei Province 湖北省
Middle Chinese (linguistics)
HSK (Chinese Proficiency Test)
traitor to one's love / heartless rat
Beckenham or Beckham (name) / David Beckham (1975-), British midfield footballer
monk fruit, the sweet fruit of Siraitia grosvenorii, a vine of the Curcubitaceae family native to southern China and northern Thailand, used in Chinese medicine
Hansen or Hanson (name)
lit. the river that divides Chu and Han / fig. a line that divides rival territories / the mid-line between sides on a Chinese chessboard
Chu-Han Contention (206-202 BC), power struggle between Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 of Han and Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽 of Chu
Han River
idle fellow / lazybones
Hanchuan, a county-level city in Xiaogan City 孝感市, Hubei
bachelor; single man
(coll.) he-man
masculine woman
(of a woman) to take a lover
Hanyu Pinyin, the romanization system used in the PRC since the 1960s
Business Chinese Test (BCT)
hero / strong and courageous person / CL: 條|条
posthumous name of the first Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 (256 or 247-195 BC), reigned 202-195 BC
the Qin (221-207 BC) and Han (206 BC-220 AD) dynasties
the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
traitor (to China)
Hanyin County in Ankang 安康, Shaanxi
Old Chinese (linguistics)
the Milky Way
the Manchu Han imperial feast, a legendary banquet in the Qing dynasty / (fig.) a sumptuous banquet
Unihan / China Japan Korea (CJK) unified ideographs / abbr. for 中日韓統一表意文字|中日韩统一表意文字
If the father is a hero, the son is a real man. If the father is a reactionary, the son is a bastard. (Cultural Revolution slogan) / fig. like father, like son
English-Chinese
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Han ethnic group / Chinese (language) / the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *漢* | 漢* | *漢
man
Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty (141-87 BC)
woman's lover
daring to act and courageous enough to take responsibility for it (idiom) / a true man has the courage to accept the consequences of his actions / the buck stops here
Hamburg (German city)
(loanword) hamburger
man / fellow / (dialect) husband
Han ethnic group
Hangu former district of Tianjin, now part of Binhai subprovincial district 濱海新區|滨海新区
live in Cao camp but have the heart in Han camp (idiom) / to be somewhere while longing to be somewhere else
Later Han or Eastern Han dynasty (25-220) / Later Han of the Five Dynasties (947-950)
(loanword) hamburger
Hannah (name)
calligraphic style of Chinese characters / typeface / font
Hanyu Da Zidian, one of the most comprehensive Chinese character dictionaries with 54,678 (and later 60,370) entries, first published between 1986-1990
boor
late Han and early Wei (roughly, first half of 3rd century AD)
Western Han dynasty (206 BC–8 AD), aka 西漢|西汉
Eastern or later Han dynasty, 25-220
Wuhan Iron and Steel
Hanyang, a district of Wuhan City 武漢市|武汉市, Hubei
The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
Hamilton (name) / Hamilton, capital of Bermuda
overbearing fiend
Milky Way
another name for History of the Five Dynasties between Tang and Song 舊五代史|旧五代史
Hannan, a district of Wuhan City 武漢市|武汉市, Hubei
Hannibal (name) / Hannibal Barca (247-183 BC), Carthaginian general
Chinese-English
Emperor Ling of Han (156-189), reigned from 168 to 189
Buckingham Palace
peasant / farmer
Deutsche Lufthansa AG
Manchurian-Chinese (relations)
Hanseong Special Metropolitan City, old name for Seoul, capital of Korea

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