Guan may refer to: * Guan (surname), several similar Chinese surnames ** Guān, Chinese surname *

Guan (state) Guan (; c. 1046–1040 BC) was an ancient Chinese city-state in present-day Henan. Its capital was Guancheng or Guan City () in present-day Guancheng Hui District of Zhengzhou and its power was limited to the immediate surrounding area. Guan w ...

, ancient Chinese city-state * Guan (bird), any of a number of bird species of the family Cracidae, of South and Central America *

Guan (instrument) The ''guan'' () is a Chinese double reed wind instrument. The northern Chinese version is called ''guanzi'' ( 管子) or ''bili'' (traditional: 篳篥; simplified: 筚篥) and the Cantonese version is called ''houguan'' ( 喉管). It is cl ...

, a Chinese wind instrument * Guang people, or Guan people, a people of modern Ghana *

Mandarin (bureaucrat) A mandarin () was a bureaucrat scholar in the history of China, Korea and Vietnam. The term is generally applied to the officials appointed through the imperial examination system; it sometimes includes the eunuchs also involved in the gove ...

, bureaucrat scholar in the government of imperial China *

String of cash coins (currency unit) A string of cash coins (Traditional Chinese: , , ; ) refers to a historical Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Ryukyuan, and Vietnamese currency unit that was used as a superunit of the Chinese cash, Japanese mon, Korean mun, Ryukyuan mon, and Vietna ...

, an old currency unit used for Chinese cash coins * Guan ware, one of the Five Great Kilns of Song dynasty China ; Locations in China * Gu'an County (固安县), Hebei ** Gu'an Town (固安镇), seat of Gu'an County * Guan County, Shandong (冠县) * Dujiangyan City (灌县), formerly Guan County, Sichuan

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