Eastern Han Chinese

Eastern Han Chinese
  • Later Han Chinese
  • Late Old Chinese
Native toChina
EraEastern Han dynasty
Sino-Tibetan
Early form
Clerical script
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologlate1251  Late Han Chinese
Provinces of the Han dynasty c. 189 AD
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese東漢上古漢語
Simplified Chinese东汉上古汉语
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDōnghàn shànggǔ hànyǔ
Southern Min
Tâi-lôTang-hàn siōng-kóo Hàn-gú
Late Old Chinese
Traditional Chinese晚期上古漢語
Simplified Chinese晚期上古汉语
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWǎnqí shànggǔ hànyǔ
Southern Min
Tâi-lôĀu-kî siōng-kóo Hàn-gú

Eastern Han Chinese (alternatively Later Han Chinese or Late Old Chinese) is the stage of the Chinese language attested in poetry and glosses from the Eastern Han period (1st–3rd centuries AD). It is considered an intermediate stage between Old Chinese and the Middle Chinese of the 7th-century Qieyun rime dictionary.