Han blue in English

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Han",
        "3": "blue"
      },
      "expansion": "Han + blue",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Han + blue.\nFrom being a blue pigment last used during the Han Dynasty.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Han blue (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Barium",
          "orig": "en:Barium",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Blues",
          "orig": "en:Blues",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Pigments",
          "orig": "en:Pigments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of Chinese blue"
      ],
      "id": "en-Han_blue-en-noun-N-KL4GkM",
      "links": [
        [
          "Chinese blue",
          "Chinese blue#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Han purple"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "Chinese blue"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Han blue"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Han",
        "3": "blue"
      },
      "expansion": "Han + blue",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Han + blue.\nFrom being a blue pigment last used during the Han Dynasty.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Han blue (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Han purple"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Barium",
        "en:Blues",
        "en:Pigments"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of Chinese blue"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Chinese blue",
          "Chinese blue#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "Chinese blue"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Han blue"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-05-27 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-05-01 using wiktextract (4997730 and 9380997). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"Han blue" meaning in English

Noun