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.

Chiang Hsiao-chang ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Ankang hasEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Yuxi hasEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Lang ethnicGroup Han Chinese
subject surface form: Lang Lang
Hu usedByEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Feng usedInEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Peng Liyuan ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Qi Xin ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Honghe ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Enlai ethnicGroup Han Chinese
subject surface form: Zhou Enlai
Zhou ethnicGroupAssociated Han Chinese
Deng Yingchao ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Teo-Swa subgroupOf Han Chinese
Chaoshan culture ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Huang usedInEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Wenshan hasEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Wu Daozi ethnicCulture Han Chinese
Zhuo Lin ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Shaobo Qin ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Dehong ethnicGroup Han Chinese
subject surface form: Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture
Guangxi Clique ethnicBase Han Chinese
Xu Xiangqian ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Qiang relatedEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Jin Weiying ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Cao Kun ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Qianjiang District ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Ma Xingrui ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Chen Geng ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Zhangzhou hasEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Diqing hasEthnicGroup Han Chinese
subject surface form: Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Lu Xun ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Hoa (ethnic Chinese in Vietnam) ethnicOrigin Han Chinese
subject surface form: Hoa
Hoa (ethnic Chinese in Vietnam) relatedGroup Han Chinese
subject surface form: Hoa
Deng Xiansheng ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Qian Xuantong ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Li Hai ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Yuxiang usedByEthnicGroup Han Chinese
Deng Pufang ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Deng Nan ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Jade Emperor worshipedBy Han Chinese
Hoa nativeName Han Chinese
subject surface form: Hoa people
this entity surface form: 華人
Hoa relatedEthnicity Han Chinese
subject surface form: Hoa people
Zhou Zuoren ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Chang Chen ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Hoklo people ethnicGroupOf Han Chinese
Hoklo people subgroupOf Han Chinese
Xi Zhongxun ethnicGroup Han Chinese
Emperor Xianzong of Tang ethnicity Han Chinese
Nujiang ethnicGroup Han Chinese