Eastern Han Chinese

Eastern Han Chinese
Later Han Chinese Late Old Chinese
Native to	China
Era	Eastern Han dynasty
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Eastern Han Chinese
Early form	Old Chinese
Writing system	Clerical script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	late1251  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 Pinyin Dōnghàn shànggǔ hànyǔ Southern Min Tâi-lô Tang-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 Pinyin Wǎnqí shànggǔ hànyǔ Southern Min Tâi-lô Āu-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.