different between character vs han

English

Etymology

From Middle English caracter, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r, “type, nature, character”), from ??????? (kharáss?, “I engrave”). Doublet of charakter.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??(?)kt?/, /?kæ?(?)kt?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæ??kt?/
• Hyphenation: char?ac?ter

Noun

character (countable and uncountable, plural characters)

1. (countable) A being involved in the action of a story.
2. (countable) A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene.

3. (uncountable, countable) A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type.

   • A man of […] thoroughly subservient character

4. (uncountable) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.

5. (countable) A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.

6. (countable) A written or printed symbol, or letter.
   • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech

     It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye.

7. (countable, dated) Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.
8. (countable, dated) A secret cipher; a way of writing in code.
9. (countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
10. (countable, informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown or raises suspicions.

11. (countable, mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
12. (countable) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.

13. (countable, dated) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.

    • This subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it.

14. (countable, dated) A reference given to a servant, attesting to their behaviour, competence, etc.
15. (countable, obsolete) Personal appearance.

Usage notes

Character is sometimes used interchangeably with reputation, but the two words have different meanings; character describes the distinctive qualities of an individual or group while reputation describes the opinions held by others regarding an individual or group. Character is internal and authentic, while reputation is external and perceived.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Pages starting with “character”.

Translations

Verb

character (third-person singular simple present characters, present participle charactering, simple past and past participle charactered)

1. (obsolete) To write (using characters); to describe.

See also

• codepoint
• font
• glyph
• letter
• symbol
• rune
• pictogram

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /k?a?rak.ter/, [k?ä??äkt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka?rak.ter/, [k????kt??r]

Noun

character m (genitive charact?ris); third declension

1. branding iron
2. brand (made by a branding iron)
3. characteristic, mark, character, style

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Hungarian: karakter
• Galician: caritel; ? carácter
• Irish: carachtar
• Italian: carattere
• Old French: caractere
  • ? English: character
  • French: caractère
• Polish: charakter
  • ? Russian: ????????? (xarákter)
• Portuguese: caractere, carácter
• Sicilian: caràttiri
• Spanish: carácter

References

• character in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• character in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• character in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Noun

character m (plural characteres)

1. Obsolete spelling of caráter (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

English

Etymology

From Middle English han, contraction of haven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæn/, /he?n/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /h?n/

Verb

han

1. (obsolete) plural simple present of have

Anagrams

• HNA, Nah., ahn, nah

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [h?n]

Noun

han m (indefinite plural hane, definite singular hani, definite plural hanet)

1. (archaic) roadside shelter for travellers and their animals: roadside hostelry, caravanserai, inn
2. (pejorative) fleabag hotel
3. messy place with no control of who comes and who leaves, regular flophouse

Basque

Pronoun

han

1. there

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?an/
• Rhymes: -an

Verb

han

1. third-person plural present indicative form of haver

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??an]

Noun

han f

1. genitive plural of hana

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hann (dative hánum).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /han/, [?han]

Pronoun

han (genitive hans, accusative ham)

1. he

See also

References

• “han,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Noun

han c (singular definite hannen, plural indefinite hanner)

1. male, he

Inflection

References

• “han,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /an/

Verb

han

1. third-person plural present indicative of haber

German

Verb

han

1. (archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of haben
   • 1812, Brothers Grimm, Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, p.138 - Der gescheidte Hans

Gwich'in

Etymology

Cognate with Tlingit héen (“water, river”).

Noun

han

1. river

Japanese

Romanization

han

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Khasi

Noun

han

1. duck

Mandarin

Romanization

han

1. Nonstandard spelling of h?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of hán.
3. Nonstandard spelling of h?n.
4. Nonstandard spelling of hàn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Etymology

Contracted infinitive and plural present of haven.

Verb

han

1. (transitive) Alternative form of haven - Piers Plowman.

Norman

Etymology

From Old Norse hampr.

Noun

han m (plural hans)

1. (Jersey) galangal

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??n/

Adjective

han

1. this

   Synonym: ev

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “han”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hann

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?n/
• Homophones: hann, hand
• Rhymes: -?n

Pronoun

han

1. he, him

See also

References

• “han” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hann

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?n?/ (example of pronunciation)

Pronoun

han

1. he, him, it (third person singular, masculine)

Usage notes

Han is used to refer not only to masculine persons, but any masculine noun. E.g.: Bilen er fin. Eg likar han. - The car is nice. I like it.

See also

References

• “han” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hann.

Pronoun

han

1. he / it (masculine nominative pronoun)

Descendants

• Danish: han

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hann.

Pronoun

han

1. he

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: han

Portuguese

Adjective

han (invariable, comparable)

1. Han Chinese (referring to the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)

Noun

han m (plural han or hans)

1. Han Chinese (member of the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)

Rohingya

Noun

han

1. ear

Romanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (han), from Persian ???? (xân, “caravanserai”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?wes- (“to dwell”)

Noun

han n (plural hanuri)

1. inn, caravanserai

Declension

References

• han in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Samoan Plantation Pidgin

Etymology

From English hand.

Noun

han

1. arm
2. hand

Usage notes

Only used to refer to a human; for an animal, the equivalent parts are all labelled as lek.

References

• Ulrike Mosel, Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (1980)
• Mühlhäusler, Peter (1983). "Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin", in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh: The Social Context of Creolization, 28–76.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (han), from Persian ???? (xan, “caravanserai”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xâ?n/
• Rhymes: -â?n

Noun

h?n m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inn

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an/, [?ãn]

Verb

han

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of haber.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of haber.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish han, from Old Norse hann, from Proto-Norse *h?na? (*h?na?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /han?/
• Homophone: hann

Pronoun

han

1. he, the third person singular, masculine, nominative case.

2. (informal, nonstandard or dialectal) him

   Synonym: (standard) honom

Declension

Tetum

Verb

han

1. to eat

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English hand.

Noun

han

1. hand
2. arm
3. foreleg (of an animal)
4. wing (of a bird)
5. branch (of a tree)
6. branch (figurative)

Derived terms

• hanwara

References

• Ulrike Mosel, Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (1980)
• Mühlhäusler, Peter (1983). "Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin", in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh: The Social Context of Creolization, 28–76.

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /han/

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (han).

Noun

han (definite accusative han?, plural hanlar)

1. khan
2. inn (for caravans)