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

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

張震 ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Fu Zuoyi ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Wang Sicong ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Zhou Haiying ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Minnan Golden Triangle ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Li Tan ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Min Xiao-Fen ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Zhongxun ethnicGroup Han Chinese
subject surface form: Xi Zhongxun
Xi An'an ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Jiang Haicheng ethnicGroup Han Chinese
subject surface form: Ai Qing
Wei Yunsong ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Mo Yan ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Yu Zuobai ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Huang Xuchu ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Yuan Mei ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Chen Jiongming ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Yuan Xiaoyuan ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Zhang Nanyang ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Lin Sen ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Lin Yutang ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Yuan Weishi ethnicGroup Han Chinese
He Ping ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Fala Chen ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Zhou Zhangshou ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Yuan Keding ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Yuan Haowen ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Eric Xu ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Jiang Weijun ethnicGroup Han Chinese
subject surface form: Ding Ling
Xi Anping ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Lin Huiyin ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Qian Deqian ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Chen Sheng ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Sun Jun ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Zhao Leji ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Wu Guang ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Tank Man ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Jin dynasty ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Li Bing ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Duchess Dugu ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Lady Yang ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Wu Yu-sen ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Liu Gongquan ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Ouyang Xun ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Juyi ethnicGroup Han Chinese
subject surface form: Bai Juyi
Shaoyang Old Xiang ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Yuan Kewen ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Tsien Tsuen-hsuin ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Xiangbo ethnicGroup Han Chinese
subject surface form: Ma Xiangbo
Yi Jianlian ethnicGroup Han Chinese