Chinese vs Han

Chinese

name
  • The Han Chinese, whether in China or overseas. 

  • The branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family including Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Minnan, and other closely related language varieties and dialects. 

  • The logographic writing system shared by most Sinitic languages. 

  • The Standard Chinese language, written in Chinese characters and spoken and spelled using Standard Mandarin pronunciation. 

  • The citizens of China, particularly citizens of the People's Republic of China. 

noun
  • A person from China or of Chinese descent. 

  • Chinese cuisine. 

  • A meal consisting of Chinese cuisine. 

adj
  • Of, from, or related to China, particularly now the People's Republic of China. 

  • Of, from, or related to a language native to Han Chinese persons, often used generally of Chinese characters or particularly to refer to Standard Mandarin. 

  • As exotic, unusual, backwards, or unorganized as someone or something from China. 

  • Of, from, or related to the people of China, particularly the Han Chinese and their culture whether in China or overseas. 

Han

name
  • The Chinese ethnicity, when distinguished from other peoples of the Chinese state 

  • A former canal in China, connecting Hancheng (now Yangzhou) on the Yangtze with Mokou (now Huai'an) on the Huai. 

  • The realm of this former state under other rulers 

  • A surname. 

  • A surname from Korean. 

  • An imperial Chinese dynasty, ruling (with interruptions) from 206 BC to AD 220, marked by the expansion of the Yellow River's Huaxia culture to the recent conquests of the Qin and a flowering of economic, literary, and scientific development 

  • The Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Han people, or Hän Hwëch'in, in Alaska and the Yukon. 

  • The star Zeta Ophiuchi in traditional Chinese astronomy, named for this state 

  • A First Nations people of Canada and an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group. 

  • An ancient Chinese county, viscounty, and kingdom of the Zhou dynasty and the Qin–Han interregnum 

  • A river in central China. 

How often have the words Chinese and Han occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )