hán

city in Hebei province

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
阝 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

hill, place

is a component form of .

甘 sound component

  Sound component

gān

  

sweetness

Evolution

邯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
邯 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
邯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

hán

city in Hebei province; various; name of a district in Hebei

Most common words with 邯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

邯郸学步

to copy the way they walk in Handan (idiom)

邯郸

also Handan county

邯郸市

Handan prefecture-level city in Hebei

name of a district in Hebei

邯郸县

Handan county in Handan 邯鄲|邯郸[Hán​dān], Hebei