Japanese symbol for “han”
藩
はん
Romaji: han
han (estate of a daimyo in the Edo and early Meiji periods); feudal domain; fief; province
In Japanese, han is 藩, read はん (han).
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Meanings
- n, n-suf han (estate of a daimyo in the Edo and early Meiji periods); feudal domain; fief; province
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “han”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 半 | はん han | han (unit of land area, approx. 595.8 m^2) |
| 翻 | ハン han | han; fan; unit that doubles the score of a hand |
| 韓 | かん kan | Han (ancient Chinese state) |
| 漢 | かん kan | Han (majority Chinese ethnic group) |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 藩主 | はんしゅ hanshu | feudal lord; daimyo |
| 藩士 | はんし hanshi | retainer of a daimyo |
| 藩政 | はんせい hansei | domain administration (Edo period); clan administration |
| 脱藩 | だっぱん dappan | becoming a lordless samurai |
| 廃藩置県 | はいはんちけん haihanchiken | abolition of the han system and establishment of prefectures (1871) |
| 藩校 | はんこう hankou | han school; school established by a daimyo for educating the children of the domain's retainers |
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.