Guan may refer to:
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Guan (surname), several similar Chinese surnames
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Guān, Chinese surname
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Guan (state), ancient Chinese city-state
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Guan (bird), any of a number of bird species of the family
Cracidae, of South and Central America
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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
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Guang people, or Guan people, a people of modern Ghana
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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
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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
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Guan ware, one of the
Five Great Kilns of
Song dynasty China
; Locations in China
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Gu'an County (固安县), Hebei
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Gu'an Town (固安镇), seat of Gu'an County
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Guan County, Shandong (冠县)
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Dujiangyan City (灌县), formerly Guan County, Sichuan
See also
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Kwon
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Kuan (disambiguation)
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Kwan (disambiguation)
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Quan (disambiguation)
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Quon (disambiguation) Quon could refer to
* Guan, a Chinese family name rendered in Cantonese as ''Kwan'', or also in English as ''Quan'' or ''Quon''
* Quon Kisaragi, a fictional character in the manga/novel series ''RahXephon''
* Nissan Diesel Quon, a line of heavy-d ...
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