As proper nouns the difference between han and unihan
is that han is an imperial Chinese dynasty, ruling (with interruptions) from 206 BC to AD 220, marked by the expansion of the Yellow River's Huaxia culture to the recent conquests of the Qin and a flowering of economic, literary, and scientific development while Unihan is a character set, a subset of Unicode, that attempts to unify the regional and historical variants of Han characters by treating them as different glyphs representing the same grapheme.
han
English
(Han Empire)(Han Chinese)
Etymology 1
From (etyl) Chinese , from the dynasty founder 's Hanzhong Commandery, headquartered at a city which also became known as [[w:Hanzhong, Hanzhong
Proper noun
(
en proper noun)
An imperial Chinese dynasty, ruling (with interruptions) from 206 BC to AD 220, marked by the expansion of the Yellow River's Huaxia culture to the recent conquests of the Qin and a flowering of economic, literary, and scientific development
The Chinese ethnicity, when distinguished from other peoples of the Chinese state
Synonyms
* Han Chinese (ethnicity )
Derived terms
* Han character
* Han ideograph
* Han letter
* Han logograph
* Han radical
* Han syllable
Related terms
* hanzi
* hanja
* kanji
See also
* Chinese character
* Chinese ideograph
* Chinese letter
* Chinese logogram
* Chinese radical
* Chinese syllable
Etymology 2
From (etyl) Chinese , an ancient Chinese placename
Proper noun
(
en proper noun)
An ancient Chinese county, viscounty, and kingdom of the Zhou dynasty and the Qin–Han interregnum
The realm of this former state under other rulers
(astronomy) The star in traditional Chinese astronomy, named for this state
unihan
English
Proper noun
(
en proper noun)
(
wikipedia Unihan)
(computing, typography) A character set, a subset of Unicode, that attempts to unify the regional and historical variants of Han characters by treating them as different glyphs representing the same grapheme.
