Han (people)
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 1.300 billion | |
 People's Republic of China
|
1.240 billion |
 Republic of China (Taiwan)
|
22,575,365 |
 Thailand
|
9,392,792 |
 Malaysia
|
6,650,000 |
 United States
|
3,794,673 |
 Indonesia
|
2,832,510 |
 Singapore
|
2,547,300 |
 Myanmar
|
1,637,540 |
 Canada
|
1,487,580 |
 Philippines
|
1,350,000 |
 Peru
|
1,300,000 |
 Cambodia
|
1,180,000 |
 South Korea
|
898,113 |
 Australia
|
866,200 |
 Vietnam
|
823,070 |
 Japan
|
655,377 |
 United Kingdom
|
433,150 |
 South Africa
|
350,000 |
 Italy
|
333,986 |
 Russia
|
998,000 |
 France
|
600,000–700,000 |
 Germany
|
212,000 |
 Spain
|
171,508 |
 India
|
189,470 |
 Laos
|
185,765 |
 Brazil
|
151,649 |
 New Zealand
|
147,510 |
 Netherlands
|
144,928 |
 Panama
|
135,000 |
 Hungary
|
23,678 |
 Finland
|
21,200 |
 Costa Rica
|
19,170 |
 Ireland
|
11,218 |
 Jamaica
|
30,000 |
| Languages | |
| Chinese | |
| Religion | |
| Non-religious, Chinese folk religion (including Taoism, ancestral worship, Confucianism, and others), Mahayana Buddhism, Christianity and other faiths. | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Sino-Tibetan peoples, such as Hui and Bai | |
|
Some sources refer to Han Chinese directly as "Chinese" or group them with other Chinese peoples. |
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| Transcriptions | |
|---|---|
| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Hànzú |
| Bopomofo | ㄏㄢˋ ㄗㄨˊ |
| Wade–Giles | Han-tzu |
| Yale Romanization | Hàndzú |
| IPA | [xântsǔ] |
| Wu | |
| Romanization | Hoe zoh |
| Hakka | |
| Romanization | Hòn-tshu̍k |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Hon juhk |
| IPA | [hɔ̄ːn tsʊ̀k] |
| Jyutping | Hon3 zuk6 |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | Hàn-cho̍k |
| Teochew Peng'im | Hàng-tsôk |
| Eastern Min | |
| Fuzhou BUC | Háng-cŭk |
The Han Chinese, Han people or simply Han (漢族; pinyin: Hànzú, literally "Han ethnicity" or "Han ethnic group"; or 漢人; pinyin: Hànrén, literally "Han people") are an ethnic group native to East Asia. They constitute approximately 92% of the population of China, 95% of Taiwan (Han Taiwanese), 76% of Singapore, 23% of Malaysia and about 18% of the global population. Han Chinese are the world's largest ethnic group, numbering over 1.3 billion.
The name Han was derived from the Han dynasty, which succeeded the short-lived Qin dynasty, and is historically considered to be the first golden age of China's Imperial era due to the power and influence it projected over much of Asia. As a result of the dynasty's prominence in inter-ethnic and pre-modern international matters, many Chinese began identifying themselves as the "people of Han" (Chinese: 漢人; pinyin: Hàn Rén), a name that has been carried down to this day. Similarly, the Chinese language also came to be named the "Han language" (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語) ever since. In the Oxford Dictionary, the Han are defined as "The dominant ethnic group in China". In the Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania, the Han are called the dominant population in "China, as well as in Taiwan and Singapore." According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the Han are "the Chinese peoples especially as distinguished from non-Chinese (such as Mongolian) elements in the population."
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