漢 — Chinese, Han, fellow
かん
漢
Chinese
いみ
- Chinese
- Han
- fellow
たんご
かん kan On'yomi おんよみ — ちゅうごくごのはつおんにゆらいするじおんよみ。おもにじゅくご(じゅくご)でつかわれます。
くみたてようそ
きほんようそ
Phono-semantic compound (形声). 氵 (water radical) provides the semantic domain. The right side originally depicted a man watching water flow from a cliff. Initially referred to the Han River (漢水) in central China, later extended to mean Chinese civilization and the Han people.