南 (nán)
south
How 南 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 十 — ten
- Traditional
- 南
- Simplified
- 南 (unchanged)
Common words using 南
- 南京 nánjīng
- Nanjing subprovincial city on the Changjiang, capital of Jiangsu province 江蘇|江苏; capital of China at different historical periods
- 南寧 nánníng
- Nanning prefecture level city and capital of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in south China 廣西壯族自治區|广西壮族自治区; Zhuang: Namzningz
- 南方 nánfāng
- south; the southern part of the country; the South
- 江南 jiāngnán
- south of Changjiang or Yangtze river; south of the lower reaches of Changjiang; often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces
- 河南 hénán
- Henan province (Honan) in central China, abbr. 豫, capital Zhengzhou 鄭州|郑州
- 海南 hǎinán
- Hainan Province, in the South China Sea, short name 瓊|琼[Qiong2], capital Haikou 海口; Hainan Island; Hainan District of Wuhai City 烏海市|乌海市[Wu1 hai3 Shi4], Inner Mongolia
- 湖南 húnán
- Hunan province in south central China, abbr. 湘, capital Changsha 長沙|长沙[Chang2 sha1]
- 濟南 jǐnán
- Ji'nan, subprovincial city and capital of Shandong province in northeast China
- 越南 yuènán
- Vietnam; Vietnamese
- 雲南 yúnnán
- Yunnan province in southwest China, bordering on Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, abbr. 滇[dian1] or 雲|云, capital Kunming 昆明
- 中南 zhōngnán
- Central South (Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan); abbr. for China-South Africa
- 中南海 zhōngnánhǎi
- Zhongnanhai, to the West of the Forbidden City, now the Communist Party headquarters
南 in a sentence
台南在台灣的南部。
Táinán zài Táiwān de nánbù.
“Tainan is in the southern part of Taiwan.”
How common is 南?
南 is the 307th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 65.2% of all running text.
Characters that appear with 南
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