Shan may refer to:

People

Shan (surname) Shan () is a Chinese surname. The origin of this surname is not clear. One explanation is that it came from Shan County in Shandong province. Another possible origin involves King Cheng of Zhou's youngest son's acquisition of the name when he was ...

, or 单 in Chinese, a Chinese surname *Shan, a variant of the Welsh given name usually spelled Siân *Occasionally used as a short form of

Shannen Shannon ("old river") is an Irish name, Anglicised from Sionainn. Alternative spellings include Shannen, Shanon, Shannan, Seanan, and Siannon. The variant Shanna is an Anglicisation of Sionna. ''Sionainn'' derives from the Irish name ''Abha na ...

/ Shannon

Ethnic groups

* Shan people, Southeast Asian ethnic group inhabiting Myanmar ** Shan language *

Dai people The Dai people ( Burmese: ရှမ်းလူမျိုး; khb, ᨴᩱ/ᨴᩱ᩠ᨿ; lo, ໄຕ; th, ไท; shn, တႆး, ; , ; ) refers to several Tai-speaking ethnic groups living in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture and t ...

, also known as Shan, ethnic group in China * Shanrong (山戎), term for "mountain barbarian" in Shanxi, Hubei in northern China

Individuals

* Shaan Shahid, Pakistani actor, model, writer and film director * MC Shan, rapper * Liu Shan, second emperor of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period. * Fu Buqi (宓不齊; Fu Pu-ch'i; born 521BC) who was accorded the title 'Count of Shan'

Places

China

* Shaanxi, abbreviated as Shan (陕), province of the People's Republic of China * Shan County, Shandong (单县), county in Heze, Shandong, China *

Shan County, Henan Shanzhou District, previously known as Shan County or Shanxian or Shaan, is an urban district of Sanmenxia in western Henan, China, bordering Shanxi province to the north. It is located on the southern bank of the Yellow River and includes the ...

(陕县), now Shanzhou District of Sanmenxia city, a county in Sanmenxia, Henan, China *

Shantou Shantou, alternately romanized as Swatow and sometimes known as Santow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total population of 5,502,031 as of the 2020 census (5,391,028 in 2010) and an administrative ...

, or Shan (汕), a city in Guangdong, China *Shan (鄯), a region in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region *Shan (剡), a river in the Zhejiang Province of China * Shan Hills, a region of Burma, China, and Thailand

Other places

* Shan State of Burma (modern state) * Shan States of Burma (historical kingdoms) * Shan Hills, a region of Burma, China, and Thailand *Shan (鄯), ancient Western Regions (西域) to the west of China *

山 Radical 46 or radical mountain () meaning "mountain" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes. It is found in the names of mountains generally in east Asia. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 636 charac ...

, ''shan'', Chinese character (used in Chinese, Japanese and Korean) for "mountains" or "mountain range" * Mount Shani or Gora Shan, a mountain in the Caucasus

Other uses

* Shan Foods, a brand of Pakistani cuisine spice mixes *Insect from Shaggai, or Shan, a fictional alien race in the writings of Ramsey Campbell * The Shan Horse, a horse breed from the Shan State of Myanmar