Kan
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Kan may refer to:
- Kan RiverKan RiverThe Kan river is a 390 mile long tributary of the Yenisei River in Siberia, Russia. It drains a basin of 36,900 km².The headwaters of the river rise in the Sayan Mountains and flow from there in a northerly direction through Kansk and then in a westerly direction through Zelenogorsk, entering...
in Russia - Kan DistrictKan DistrictKan District is a district in Tehran County, Tehran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 63,514, in 15,837 families. The District has no cities....
of Iran - Kan (surname)Kan (surname)-People with this name:* Kán, a Hungarian noble family* Daniel Kan, mathematician* Ilya Kan, Soviet chess player* Shiu-Kay Kan , British architect, industrial designer and lighting designer* Naoto Kan , Japanese Prime Minister...
- One of the BacabBacabBacab is the generic Yucatec name for each of the four pre-Spanish, aged Maya deities of the interior of the earth and its water deposits. The Bacabs have more recent counterparts in the lecherous, drunken old thunder deities of the Gulf Coast regions...
s of Mayan mythology - Gan, the Wade-Giles spelling of the Pinyin word
- Kan variation of the Sicilian DefenceSicilian DefenceThe Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the moves:The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4...
, a chess opening
In music
- Kan - swars, linking notes (grace notes) in Indian classical music
- Kan (song)Kan (song)"Kan" , was the Israeli entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991, performed in Hebrew by Duo Datz. Its lyrics and melody were written by Israeli songwriter Uzi Hitman....
, the Israeli entry at the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest - Kanye WestKanye WestKanye Omari West is an American rapper, singer, and record producer. West first rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z's album The Blueprint, as well as hit singles for musical artists including Alicia Keys, Ludacris, and...
In weights and measures
- CattyCattyThe catty , symbol 斤, is a traditional Chinese unit of mass used across East and Southeast Asia, notably for weighing food and other groceries in some wet markets, street markets, and shops. Related units include the picul, equal to 100 catties, and the tael, which is of a catty. A stone is a...
, or kan (斤), a Chinese unit of weight equal to 16 tael - A Japanese unit of mass, equal to 1,000 momme (kan (貫) or kanme (貫目))
See also
- KAN (disambiguation)KAN (disambiguation)KAN usually refers to Stadsregio Arnhem-Nijmegen , a metropolitan area in the Netherlands.KAN could also refer to:...
- Kaan (disambiguation)
- Kane (disambiguation)
- Khan (disambiguation)Khan (disambiguation)Khan may refer to:*a caravanserai*Khan , an English progressive rock band in the 70s*Khan , a Marvel Comics character*Khan!, a 1975 US television series...
- KahnKahnKahn is a German surname. Kahn is the German word for a small boat. It is also a Germanized form of the Jewish surname Cohen, another variant of which is Cahn.- People with the surname Kahn :...
(German surname) - Can (disambiguation)