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Hana-bi (花火)
Hana-bi (花火, Fireworks) is Takeshi Kitano's 1997 Japanese crime drama about detective Nishi caring for his dying wife; it won the 1997 Venice Golden Lion.
Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke
Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke is the Te Pāti Māori MP for Hauraki-Waikato, first elected 14 October 2023 as New Zealand's youngest lawmaker in 170 years; known for her 2024 haka protest against the Treaty Principles Bill and her record seven-day suspension.
Hanabi
Hanabi (花火) is Antoine Bauza's 2010 cooperative card game, Spiel des Jahres 2013 winner, in which 2-5 players hold cards facing outward, give limited clues, and build five color fireworks to a perfect score of 25.
HANABIE.
HANABIE. (花冷え。) is a four-piece Japanese all-female band from Tokyo, formed in 2015, known for its self-styled "Harajuku-core" sound, a fusion of metalcore, hardcore, and Harajuku aesthetics.
HANAC syndrome
HANAC syndrome (hereditary angiopathy with nephropathy, aneurysms, and muscle cramps; OMIM 611773) is a rare autosomal dominant COL4A1 disorder with retinal arteriolar tortuosity, small-vessel brain disease, carotid siphon aneurysms, renal cysts, hematuria, and muscle cramps.
Hanaco Ventures
Hanaco Ventures is an Israeli venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Alon Lifshitz, Lior Prosor, and Pasha Romanovski, managing about $2 billion in Israeli-founded technology companies.
Hanadi Sleiman
Hanadi F. Sleiman is a Canadian chemist at McGill University known for the first DNA cages and nanotubes that release drug cargo on biological stimuli.
Hanafi school
The Hanafi school (حنفية) is one of the four schools of Sunni Islamic law, founded in Kufa by the jurist Abu Hanifa in the 8th century.
Hanafi school in India
The Hanafi school in India (حنفی مکتب) was the Hanafi school of Sunni Islamic law as practiced in India under the Delhi Sultanate from 1206 to 1526.
Hanafuda (花札)
Hanafuda (花札), Japanese flower cards: a 48-card deck of 12 monthly suits used for fishing games like Koi-Koi, Hana-Awase, and Hachi-Hachi; descended from Portuguese karuta, created mid-Edo, Nintendo's founding product in 1889.
Hanagita Peak
Hanagita Peak, 8,504 ft (2,592 m), a Chugach Mountains summit in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska, named for Ahtna chief Hanagita; ultra-prominent (5,954 ft) with a possible first ascent reported in 1998.
Hanahaki disease (花吐き病)
Hanahaki disease (花吐き病, also 하나하키병, 花吐病) is a fictional trope, not a real illness, in which unrequited love makes flowers grow in the lungs. Popularized by Naoko Matsuda's 2009 manga Hanahaki Otome; cured by requited love or surgery that erases the feelings.
Hanako Greensmith
Hanako Greensmith (born 1996, Los Angeles) is an American actress and musical theater writer, Pace University BFA graduate, best known as paramedic Violet Mikami on NBC's Chicago Fire, series regular since season 10.
Hanako-san (花子さん)
Hanako-san (トイレの花子さん) is Japan's best-known school ghost story: a bob-haired girl in a red skirt haunting school toilets, summoned by knocking three times, traced to the 1950s and peaking in the 1980s-1990s.
Hanam
Hanam (하남시, Hanam-si) is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, east of Seoul on the Han River. Established 1989 from Gwangju-gun, it is the estimated site of early Baekje's capital Hanam Wirye-seong and has 14 administrative dongs.
Hanami (花見)
Hanami (花見, "flower viewing") is the Japanese custom of admiring cherry blossoms with picnics and gatherings under the trees; begun by Nara-era aristocrats, popularized by Edo shoguns Yoshimune and Iemitsu, and spread nationwide by the Somei-yoshino cultivar.
Hanami Planum
Hanami Planum is the only discrete highland (planum) on dwarf planet Ceres, 555 km across at 15N 230E, renamed from Erntedank Planum in 2016, named for the Japanese cherry blossom festival, and marking a subsurface mass deficit and possible upwelling.
Hanan al-Shaykh
Hanan al-Shaykh (حنان الشيخ), born 1945, is a Lebanese novelist, journalist, and playwright living in London, known for fiction on women's lives in Arab society, including The Story of Zahra.
Hanan and Hurin Cuzco
Hanan and Hurin Cuzco were the upper and lower moieties into which the Inca capital of Cuzco and its population were divided, with Hanan holding higher ranks.
Hanan dynasty
The Hanan dynasty, or dinastía Hanan Cuzco, was the Upper Cuzco line of Inca rulers, from Inca Roca to Atahualpa, credited with conquering the empire of Tawantinsuyu.
Hananiah
Hananiah (חנניה) is an early Exilarch (Resh Galuta) of Babylonian Jewry according to the legendary portion of the Seder Olam Zuta list, a grandson of Zerubbabel.
Hananiah (commander of the citadel)
Hananiah is a mid-5th-century BC official of Persian-period Yehud, named in Nehemiah 7:2 as commander of the citadel of Jerusalem and commended as more trustworthy and God-fearing than most.
Hananiah b. David
Hananiah b. David (Ḥananyah ben David) was an 8th-century exilarch of Babylonian Jewry, dated c. 761–771, and the younger brother of Anan ben David, the traditional founder of Karaism.
Hananiah Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum (Kedushat Yom Tov)
Hananiah Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum, known as the Kedushat Yom Tov, was a Hungarian Hasidic rebbe who served as rabbi of Sighet from 1883 until his death in 1904.
Hanaori-san Still Wants to Fight in the Next Life
Hanaori-san Still Wants to Fight in the Next Life (花織さんは転生しても喧嘩がしたい) is Hekiru Hikawa's Morning Two romcom manga about a reincarnated Demon King teacher and the hero who defeated him; a 12-episode Liden Films anime aired July–September 2026.
Hanaregumi
Hanaregumi (ハナレグミ) is the solo project of Japanese singer-songwriter Nagazumi Takashi, born 1974 in Tokyo, who started it in 2002 while still fronting SUPER BUTTER DOG.
HANARO
HANARO (하나로) is a 30 MW multipurpose research reactor at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute in Daejeon, South Korea, in operation since 1995 for neutron research and radioisotope production.
Hanasaku Iroha (花咲くいろは)
Hanasaku Iroha (花咲くいろは), a 2011 P.A.WORKS original anime about Ohana Matsumae working at the Kissuiso hot spring inn, set in Yuwaku Onsen, Kanazawa; 26 TV episodes, a 2013 film, and a real bonbori festival.
Hanatoxin
Hanatoxin (HaTx1, HaTx2), 35-residue peptides from the Chilean tarantula Grammostola spatulata, are gating-modifier toxins that bind Kv2.1 voltage-sensor paddles at nanomolar concentrations, shifting activation to more positive voltages.
Hanau
Hanau, a city in Hesse, Germany, in the FrankfurtRheinMain region and birthplace of the Brothers Grimm; a kreisfreie Stadt since 1 January 2026 after leaving the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, with about 98,000-107,000 residents.