Zi:汉

汉(F​漢) [hàn] Hàn Chinese (ethnicity/people/language); old man (​老汉); Eastern Han dynasty (​东汉); Milky Way [tān] cf. ​漢

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The simple-form character 汉 (5 strokes) is an abbrev. of the full-form character ​漢 (14 strokes), replacing the full-form component ​𦰩 (11 strokes) with ​又 (2 strokes), as in ​难/​難.
    Note: For simplified ​又/​𦰩 replacement, cf. ​叹/​嘆, 汉/​漢, ​难/​難, ​摊/​攤, ​滩/​灘.
    The Shuōwén Seal form of ​漢(​𤁉) hàn ‘(river name)’ combines ​氵(​水 shuǐ) ‘water’, and ​難(​𩁘) nán ‘difficult’ (abbrev. phonetic); formerly wr. ​㵄, with ​或 over ​大, signifying the river valley of the great kingdom (​或/​國/​国).
    Note: 汉/​漢 Hàn is the name of a river (汉​水, the longest tributary of the ​长​江 Cháng Jiāng = ​扬​子 Yangtze river in central China); the Hàn river gave its name to its valley, to two important dynasties (206 BCE - 220 CE), and to the most populous Chinese nationality and their language.
    Compare: 汉​水, 汉​江; 汉​代, ​西汉, ​东汉; ​老汉, 汉​子; 汉​语, 汉​字.
    Compare: ​艰/​艱(​𥌵) jiān ‘difficult/hard’; ​暵(​𤑆​熯) hàn ‘parched’.
    Compare: ​难/​難(​𩁘) nán ‘difficult’, ​滩/​灘(​𤅼​𤅩) tān ‘beach’ (formerly hàn ‘soaked/dried’).
    Compare: ​叹/​嘆 tàn ‘sigh’; ​仅/​僅 jǐn ‘barely’.
►references: Wieger:171b; Henshall:442; Karlgren:AD389,GS144c; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:3.1549.8; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:019.1.01; EDOC:0
►components: ​氵​又​
►Cantonese: hon-
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Unicode: U+6C49
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