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南
JLPT N5 SL2 9 strokes Frequency: #341

Meanings

South

Radicals

十

Decomposition

⿱十⿵冂⿱丷干

Etymology

Pictographic: A musical bell

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 9

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
2 vertical right-to-left
3 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left
4 hook bottom-to-top
5 dot bottom-right-to-top-left
6 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left
7 horizontal bottom-to-top
8 horizontal bottom-to-top
9 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
ナン nan
ナ na
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
みなみ minami

Words Using This Kanji

296 words total
Other (20 words)
西南の役 せいなんのえき

Satsuma Rebellion (1877)

南岸沿い なんがんぞい

along the southern coast

斗南 となん

the whole world

南斗 なんと

Chinese "Dipper" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

東南東 とうなんとう

east-southeast

南極条約 なんきょくじょうやく

Antarctic Treaty

南部連合国 なんぶれんごうこく

Confederate States of America

南斗六星 なんとろくせい

Milk Dipper

南アフリカ連邦 みなみアフリカれんぽう

Union of South Africa (1910-1961)

南ア連邦 なんアれんぽう

Union of South Africa (1910-1961)

南蛮渡来 なんばんとらい

imported to Japan by early European traders

兵法指南 へいほうしなん

instruction in martial arts

恋愛指南 れんあいしなん

instruction in the ways of love

南天 なんてん

southern sky

南鮮 なんせん

South Korea

南方仏教 なんぽうぶっきょう

Southern Buddhism (as practised in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia)

南京事件 ナンキンじけん

Nanking Incident (targeting of Nanking's foreign properties and residents by Kuomintang troops in March, 1927)

南京大虐殺 ナンキンだいぎゃくさつ

Nanking Massacre (1937)

図南 となん

large undertaking attempted in a far-off land

華南 かなん

South China