Kwan may refer to:
People
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Kwan (surname) (關), a Chinese surname
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Kwan Cheatham (born 1995), American basketball player for
Ironi Nes Ziona
Ironi Ness Ziona B.C. (or spelled as Ironi Nes Ziona B.C.) is a professional basketball club based in Ness Ziona, Israel. The team plays its home games at the Lev Hamoshava, which has capacity for 1,200 people. The club plays in the Israeli Bas ...
of the
Israel Basketball Premier League
Ligat HaAl ( he, ליגת העל, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is the top-tier level league of professional competition in Israeli club basketball, making it Israel's primary basketball c ...
* nickname of
Kwandwane Browne
Kwandwane "Kwan" Browne (born 11 December 1977 in Belmont, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Trinidadian field hockey player.
He has represented Trinidad and Tobago internationally at the Commonwealth Games, Pan American Games and Pan American Cup.
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(born 1977), Trinidadian field hockey player
* nickname of Suchakree
Kwan Poomjang
Suchakree "Kwan" Poomjang (born 2 January 1975) is a Thai former professional snooker player who spent three years on the sport's main tour between 2001 and 2004. He reached the final stages of a tournament once, at the 2002 UK Championship, a ...
(born 1975), Thai former professional snooker player
*Kwan, Canadian music producer, songwriter and engineer
Other uses
* Kwan, Canadian music producer, songwriter and engineer
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Kwan (band)
Kwan is a hip hop/pop music group from Helsinki, Finland. Most visible members of the band are the two vocalists Mariko (Mari Liisa Pajalahti) and Tidjan (Ossi Bah Tidiane). The band started as a hip hop act, but nowadays the songs contain more ...
, a Finnish hip hop/pop group.
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Kwan (martial arts)
Kwan ( Hanja: 館; Hangul:관) in Korean literally means building or hall, but when used in martial arts it can also refer to a school or clan of martial artists who follow the same style and/or leader.
Taekwondo: The Five Kwans / The Nine Kw ...
, a Korean term for a school or clan of martial artists.
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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 ...
, bureaucrat scholar in the government of Joseon dynasty.
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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 ...
, a superunit of the
Korean mun
The ''mun'' (Hanja: ) was introduced as the main currency of Korea in 1625 and stayed in use until 1892. Prior to the ''mun'', cash coins with the inscriptions ''tongbo'' (通寶) and ''jungbo'' (重寶) and silver vases called ''ŭnbyŏng'' ...
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See also
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Guan (disambiguation)
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Kuang (disambiguation)
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Kwon
Gwon also written as Kwon () is a Korean family name. Some sources list as many 56 clans, but most of them were merged with the Andong Gwon clan under the Sijeung-gong faction soon after the establishment of the Goryeo Kingdom.
Andong Gwon cla ...
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Quan
Quán is the Pinyin romanization of the Chinese family names / and , as well as a customary spelling of (pinyin: Guān). All written forms of the name are rare enough that they do not appear in the list of the 100 most common Chinese surnames.
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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- ...
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