Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to:

Acronyms

* Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Number, a barcode standard compatible with EAN * Japanese Accepted Name, a Japanese nonproprietary drug name * Job Accommodation Network, US, for people with disabilities * '' Joint Army-Navy'', US standards for

electronic color code An electronic color code or electronic colour code (see spelling differences) is used to indicate the values or ratings of electronic components, usually for resistors, but also for capacitors, inductors, diodes and others. A separate code, the ...

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Journal of Advanced Nursing The ''Journal of Advanced Nursing'' (also known as ''JAN'') is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of nursing. It is published by John Wiley & Sons. JAN is a world-leading international peer reviewed journal. JAN targets r ...

Personal name

Jan (name) Jan is a form of John that is used in various languages. (See the “Other names” section in this page’s infobox for more variants.) The name is used in Afrikaans, Belarusian, Circassian, Catalan, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Devon dialect, Dut ...

, male variant of ''John'', female shortened form of ''Janet'' and ''Janice'' * Jan (Persian name), Persian word meaning 'life', 'soul', 'dear'; also used as a name *

Ran (surname) Rǎn is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized Jan in Wade–Giles. Ran is listed 301st in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. As of 2008, it is the 178th most ...

, romanized from Mandarin as Jan in Wade–Giles *

Ján Ján is a Slovak form of the name John. Famous people named Ján * Ján Bahýľ, inventor * Ján Čapkovič, football player * Ján Čarnogurský, former Prime Minister of Slovakia * Ján Cikker, composer * Ján Ďurica, football player * Ján ...

, Slovak name

Other uses

January January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and is also the first of seven months to have a length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day. It is, on average, the coldest month of the ...

, as an abbreviation for the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar *

Jan (cards) The following is a glossary of terms used in card games. Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to Bridge (card game), Bridge, Hearts ...

, a term in some card games when a player loses without taking any tricks or scoring a minimum number of points * Jan (comic book writer), pseudonym of Spanish comic book artist Juan López Fernández * Jan Mayen, Norwegian island in the Arctic Ocean * "Jan", a WIGS-produced YouTube drama *"Jan", a short film produced by Amos Yee {{Disambiguation