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.

Li Na ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Chien-Shiung Wu ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Gao usedByEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Zhan usedByEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Lu Lingzi ethnicity Han Chinese
Yang usedByEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Eason Chan ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Tan ethnicAssociation Han Chinese
Kelly Chan ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Zeng usedAsSurnameBy Han Chinese
Zeng usedAsGivenNameBy Han Chinese
Kunming, China hasEthnicGroup Han Chinese
subject surface form: Kunming
Song Shilun ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Qinghai hasMajorEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Wong ethnicAssociation Han Chinese
Li Yunhe ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Mao Zedong family ethnicity Han Chinese
Jing usedInEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Kaihui ethnicGroup Han Chinese
subject surface form: Yang Kaihui
Min Chinese usedBy Han Chinese
Gansu Province ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Zhang Huan ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Lin commonAmong Han Chinese
Cai Guo-Qiang ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Mao Anlong ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Simon Xie ethnicity Han Chinese
Fu Bingchang ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Yuja Wang ethnicity Han Chinese
Guo ethnicAssociation Han Chinese
Eddie Wu ethnicity Han Chinese
Koreans relatedEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Heilongjiang hasEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Yingqin ethnicGroup Han Chinese
subject surface form: He Yingqin
Guangchang usedByEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Fengtian relatedToEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Zhu Xi ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Luo Zhuoying ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Mao Yuanxin ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Mao Xinyu ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Chen isUsedByEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Anying ethnicGroup Han Chinese
subject surface form: Mao Anying
Deng Hua ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Hotan majorEthnicGroup Han Chinese