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汉

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HSK 3.0
Level 1
Old HSK
Level 1
Strokes
5
Radical
水 +2
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
漢
Common rank
#382
Unicode
U+6C49

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Formation & memory

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How 汉 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

Simplified form of 漢; the Han 𦰩 river 氵

Components 氵 又

How to remember it

Han · Heisig RSH #637

水 water + right hand

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 汉

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WordPinyinMeaning
汉语 Hàn yǔ Chinese language
汉字 hàn zì Chinese character(s)
阿尔汉格尔斯克州 Ā ěr hàn gé ěr sī kè zhōu Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
汉中市 Hàn zhōng Shì Hanzhong, prefecture-level city in Shaanxi Province 陝西省|陕西省[Shan3 xi1 Sheng3]
大汉族主义 dà Hàn zú zhǔ yì Greater Han nationalism
汉学家 hàn xué jiā sinologist; scholar of Chinese
汉南区 Hàn nán Qū Hannan, a district of Wuhan City 武漢市|武汉市[Wu3 han4 Shi4], Hubei
汉阳区 Hàn yáng Qū Hanyang, a district of Wuhan City 武漢市|武汉市[Wu3 han4 Shi4], Hubei
汉台区 Hàn tái Qū Hantai, a district of Hanzhong City 漢中市|汉中市[Han4 zhong1 Shi4], Shaanxi
中古汉语 zhōng gǔ Hàn yǔ Middle Chinese (linguistics)
江汉区 Jiāng hàn Qū Jianghan, a district of Wuhan City 武漢市|武汉市[Wu3 han4 Shi4], Hubei
武汉大学 Wǔ hàn Dà xué Wuhan University
上古汉语 shàng gǔ Hàn yǔ Old Chinese (linguistics)
门外汉 mén wài hàn layman
高本汉 Gāo Běn hàn Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), distinguished Swedish linguist and sinologist
汉子 hàn zi man; fellow; (dialect) husband
大汉 Dà hàn Han Dynasty
大汉 dà hàn burly fellow
汉人 Hàn rén Han Chinese person or people
女汉子 nǚ hàn zi masculine woman