han
Portuguese, noun
han is spelled H-A-N (3 letters) and appears 8.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,020th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Han is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Han Chinese (member of the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “maior grupo étnico da China”.
What does han mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Han Chinese (referring to the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)
noun
- 1
masculineHan Chinese (member of the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. maior grupo étnico da China 2. nome de uma dinastia da China antiga 3. nome de alguns rios na China, Coreia e Vietnã
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of han
- hans plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is han in Portuguese?
han appears 8.9 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).