Han Chinese

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The Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group in both China and the world, with a shared cultural heritage, language family, and historical identity rooted in ancient Chinese civilization.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Han Chinese canonical 981
Han Chinese culture 5
Han Chinese in Shanghai region 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (79)

Predicate Object
instanceOf East Asian people
ethnic group
ancestralHomeland North China Plain
Yellow River basin
associatedState Malaysia
China
surface form: People's Republic of China

Republic of China
Singapore
continent Asia
country China
culturalHeritage Chinese calligraphy
Chinese cuisine
Chinese martial arts
Chinese opera
Chinese painting
Confucian heritage
culture Chinese culture
diaspora Chinese diaspora
ethnicGroupOf China
ethnogenesisPeriod Han dynasty
Qin dynasty
Warring States period
historicalOrigin ancient Chinese civilization
historicalStateFormation Han dynasty
Ming dynasty
Qin dynasty
Qing dynasty
Song dynasty
Tang dynasty
languageFamily Chinese language
surface form: Sinitic languages

Sino-Tibetan languages
majorityIn China
namedAfter Han dynasty
populationRank largest ethnic group in China
largest ethnic group in the world
primaryLanguage Cantonese
Gan Chinese
Hakka
Hakka
surface form: Hokkien

Jin Chinese
Mandarin Chinese
Min Chinese
Wu Chinese
Xiang Chinese
recognizedAs majority ethnic group of the People's Republic of China
majority ethnic group of the Republic of China
religion Buddhism
Chinese folk religion
Christianity
Confucianism
Islam
Taoism
significantDiasporaIn Australia
Canada
Indonesia
Malaysia
Singapore
Southeast Asia
Thailand
United States of America
surface form: United States
standardSpokenVariety Standard Chinese
surface form: Standard Mandarin
standardWrittenLanguage Standard Chinese
surface form: Standard written Chinese
traditionalCalendar Chinese lunisolar calendar
traditionalClothing Hanfu
changshan
qipao
traditionalFestivals Dragon Boat Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations
surface form: Mid-Autumn Festival

Qingming Festival
Spring Festival
traditionalPhilosophy Confucianism
Taoism
surface form: Daoism

Legalism
traditionalValueSystem ancestor worship
filial piety
patrilineal kinship
usesWritingSystem Chinese characters
writingStandardization Qin dynasty script unification
writingSystemType logographic writing system

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (989)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jean Liu ethnicity Han Chinese
Yee hasEthnolinguisticAssociation Han Chinese
Kris Wu ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Xianbei ethnicAssimilationInto Han Chinese
Zhu Zhanxi ethnicity Han Chinese
Empress Dowager Jiang ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Zhu Zhanyong ethnicity Han Chinese
Empress Fang ethnicity Han Chinese
Tashkurgan ethnicGroupPresent Han Chinese
Yi usedByCommunity Han Chinese
Minyue (ancient people) neighboringPeoples Han Chinese
subject surface form: Minyue
Jiayuguan City primaryEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Tianshun Emperor ethnicity Han Chinese
Mao Na ethnicGroup Han Chinese
subject surface form: Li Na
Zhu Qiyu ethnicity Han Chinese
Huizhou merchants ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Yao Wenyuan ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Empress Xiaojing ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Xu Jiayin ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Ai (Chinese surname) usedBy Han Chinese
Jiao (Chinese surname) usedByEthnicGroup Han Chinese
subject surface form: Jiao
Chiam associatedEthnicity Han Chinese
Chan (Cantonese for 詹 or 占 etc.) usedByEthnicGroup Han Chinese
subject surface form: Chan (surname 詹)
Empress Dowager Xiaoding ethnicity Han Chinese
Wang Hongwen ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Zhang Guotao ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Zhu Shizhen ethnicity Han Chinese
Liuzhou hasEthnicGroup Han Chinese
QH ethnicComposition Han Chinese
subject surface form: Qinghai
Huiguo ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Empress Xiaoduanxian ethnicity Han Chinese
Junggar hasEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Yang clan ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Han Meilin ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Zhu Houcong ethnicity Han Chinese
Joan Lin ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Sammo Hung Kam-bo ethnicGroup Han Chinese
General Qi Jiguang ethnicGroup Han Chinese
subject surface form: Qi Jiguang
Jiuquan hasEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Tsang associatedEthnicity Han Chinese
Zeng Chenggong ethnicity Han Chinese
subject surface form: Zheng Chenggong
Zhu Houxi ethnicity Han Chinese
Su Yu ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Empress Zhang ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Lu Lingjia ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Lu Hao-tung ethnicGroup Han Chinese
House of Gao ethnicGroup Han Chinese