Han vs Shang

Han

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

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

  • 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. 

  • A river in central China. 

Shang

name
  • an ancient dynasty in China 

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