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Han-tan

Han-tan is the alternative form of Handan.

Meaning of Handan

Proper noun

Handan

  1. A prefecture-level city of Hebei, China.
    • Sometime in the afternoon, we reached Hantan, a town of forty thousand people along the now defunct Peiping-Hankow Railway. Although the first real city I had seen since leaving Kuomintang areas, Hantan was only half alive.[1949, Jack Belden, “Traveling Companions”, in China Shakes the World, Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 38

Origin of Han-tan

From Mandarin 邯鄲 /邯郸 (Hándān) Wade–Giles romanization: Han²-tan¹.

Questions about Han-tan

What is Han-tan the alternative form of?
Han-tan is the alternative form of Handan.

Words near Han-tan in the dictionary

  1. Han-ch'eng
  2. Han-ch'uan
  3. Han-chung
  4. han-geul
  5. Han-k'ou
  6. Han-tan
  7. Han-yang
  8. Hana
  9. hanacaraka
  10. hanachas tefillin
  11. Hanadi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Han-tan (page history and authors); Handan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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