One account traces the Han surname to the Western Regions' Hanhanasi tribe of the Yuan period, with the character 憨 adopted for its similar sound to the first syllable of the clan name.
The Hanhanasi, also called Hebuhenasi, are identified as an ancient Sogdian tribe originally living along the upper Yenisei River. Some descendants merged with Mongol and Jurchen peoples during the Jin, Mongol, and Yuan periods and formed the Gorlos tribe.
Pronunciation records differ: the surname is listed as both hān and kàn. The fanqie spelling in Guangyun and Jiyun is “下瞰切,” corresponding to kàn.
The ancestral seats are Luoyang and Shangyu. The hall names Luoyang Hall and Shangyu Hall were established from those ancestral seats.
In 1283, some Hanhanasi people were relocated near Mount Duoyan. In 1644, one Han lineage entered Shanhai Pass with the army and settled around present-day Luoyang and Song County in Henan. The surname is now recorded in Luoyang, Song County, and Baofeng in Henan, Shangyu in Zhejiang, Wuhan in Hubei, and Kaohsiung in Taiwan.
Han Yicheng served as an instructor in Xin'an County during the Qing dynasty. Han Yukun (1888–1925), courtesy name Runqing, was from present-day Song County, Luoyang, Henan, and was a Shaanxi-Henan warlord in the early Republic of China.
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