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old man / I (an old man referring to himself)
HSK 7-9
(Buddhism) arhat (abbr. for 阿羅漢|阿罗汉)
to sinicize / sinicization / (software) Chinese localization
Hamburg (German city)
(loanword) hamburger
idle fellow / lazybones
Milky Way
Hanseong, former name of Seoul (capital of South Korea), replaced in 2005 with 首爾|首尔
Hanyuan county in Ya'an 雅安, Sichuan
Hanyin County in Ankang 安康, Shaanxi
Hans (name) / Reims (city in France)
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Han ethnic group / Chinese (language) / the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
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man
Hankou, part of Wuhan 武漢|武汉 at the junction of Han river and Changjiang in Hubei
Emperor Xuan (91-48 BC) of the Former Han Dynasty, reigned 74-48 BC
the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
man (i.e. manly, masculine)
man of steel / unyielding, tough guy
man / fellow / (dialect) husband
tramp / wanderer
Wuhan, sub-provincial city and capital of Hubei Province 湖北省
Hanyu Pinyin, the romanization system used in the PRC since the 1960s
Han ethnic group
sinology / Chinese studies (in foreign schools) / Han Learning, a Qing dynasty movement aiming at a philological appraisal of the Classics
hamburger (loanword)
Chinese written language / Chinese literature esp. as taught abroad
Robin Hood (English 12th century folk hero)
Hamilton (name) / Hamilton, capital of Bermuda
sinologist / scholar of Chinese
Hannah (name)
white marble / a type of white marble used for building and sculpting
Hansen or Hanson (name)
Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty (141-87 BC)
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
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
Buckingham Palace
bachelor; single man
layman
Sino-Tibetan language family
(idiom) burly chap; husky fellow
intoxicated man / drunkard
peasant / farmer
heroes
Hanyang county in Hubei province / historical name Hanyang for Seoul, Korea
Emperor Xian of Han (181-234), the final Han emperor, set up by Dong Zhuo 董卓, reigned 189-220, forced to abdicate 220 by Cao Pi 曹丕
boor
Han Chinese person or people
human pyramid
the Manchu Han imperial feast, a legendary banquet in the Qing dynasty / (fig.) a sumptuous banquet
Jianghan district of Wuhan city 武漢市|武汉市, Hubei
Guanghan, county-level city in Deyang 德陽市|德阳市, Sichuan
the sky / the heavens / (fig.) imperial court
lit. until you reach the Great Wall, you're not a proper person; fig. to get over difficulties before reaching the goal
Han ethnic group
Shu Han (c. 200-263), Liu Bei's kingdom in Sichuan during the Three Kingdoms, claiming legitimacy as successor of Han
Hanyin County in Ankang 安康, Shaanxi
Han of the Five dynasties (951-979), one of ten kingdoms during the Five Dynasties, Ten Kingdoms period (907-960)
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
Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
Han River
Former Han dynasty (206 BC-8 AD), also called 西漢|西汉, Western Han dynasty
lit. Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 and Cao Wei 曹魏 cannot coexist (idiom) / fig. two enemies cannot live under the same sky / (former KMT slogan against CCP) "gentlemen and thieves cannot coexist"
Jianghan district of Wuhan city 武漢市|武汉市, Hubei
Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) / refers to the Western Han and Eastern Han
Han River (Hanshui)
lit. the river that divides Chu and Han / fig. a line that divides rival territories / the mid-line between sides on a Chinese chessboard
arhat (Sanskrit) / a holy man who has left behind all earthly desires and concerns and attained nirvana (Buddhism)
traitor to one's love / heartless rat
Aohan banner or Aokhan khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
(coll.) he-man
live in Cao camp but have the heart in Han camp (idiom) / to be somewhere while longing to be somewhere else
a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him (idiom)
Hannan district of Wuhan city 武漢市|武汉市, Hubei
posthumous name of the first Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 (256 or 247-195 BC), reigned 202-195 BC
(of a woman) to take a lover
hero / strong and courageous person / CL: 條|条
Hanover
bamboo slip used for record keeping during the Han Dynasty
Hanshou county in Changde 常德, Hunan
the Milky Way
Hangu former district of Tianjin, now part of Binhai subprovincial district 濱海新區|滨海新区
Xuanhan county in Dazhou 達州|达州, Sichuan
Hangu former district of Tianjin, now part of Binhai subprovincial district 濱海新區|滨海新区
Hantai District of Hanzhong City 漢中市|汉中市, Shaanxi
woman's lover
Canton-Hankou Railway, linking Guangzhou and Wuchang, incorporated since 1957 into the Jing-Guang Railway 京廣鐵路|京广铁路
Milky Way / also called 銀河|银河
(idiom) dauntless; courageous; spirited
overbearing fiend
to commit adultery (of married woman)
broad bean (Vicia faba); fava bean
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
Greater Han nationalism

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