Example sentences for: han

How can you use “han” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Like many dynasties before and after, the Han succession ended in a new struggle for power and anarchy.

  • Most of the residents of Hohhot are Han (ethnic Chinese), and Inner Mongolia’s close connection with China dates back several centuries.

  • There are telltale characteristics, widely if not universally present: the replacement of an initial "th" with a "d" sound ("dis," "dem") and of a medial or final "th" by an "f" or other consonant sound ("with" becomes "wif," "brother" becomes "bruvah"); a reduction of consonant clusters in general (so that "first" becomes "firs" and "hand" becomes "han"); the replacement of a final "r" sound with a vowel sound ("summah" for "summer" and "mo" for "more"); the prevalence of so-called plosive consonants (making a word such as "bill" sound more like "beel"); the placement of stress on a first, rather than a second, syllable ("DEE-troit"); the disappearance of the final "s" from third-person singular verbs ("what go 'round, come 'round"); the dropping of the copula ("I here," "the coffee cold") and of certain tense inflections altogether.

  • Founded in the Han Dynasty, Nanchang is the provincial capital and main industrial center of the subtropical Jiangxi Province.

  • When the Han took over, in 206 b.c., a grandiose new capital called Chang’an (“Everlasting Peace”) rose just north of Xi’an.


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