Kanji1 / 9
南 kanji
south
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ナンナ
Kun readings
みなみ
Words with 南
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2南極PopularSouth Pole; the Antarctic; Antarctica
- N2南米PopularSouth America
- N2南北Popularnorth and south; north to south; South Korea and North Korea
- N1南southern; south; nanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions
- —西南Popularsouth-west
- —東南Popularsouth-east
- —南緯Popularsouthern latitude
- —南海Popularsouthern sea
- —南蛮Popularsouthern barbarians (name used in ancient China for non-Chinese ethnic groups to the south); South-East Asian countries (in the late-Muromachi and Edo periods); Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal and their South-East Asian colonies; late-Muromachi and Edo periods); foreign (of goods from South-East Asia and Western Europe); exotic (esp. in a Western European or South-East Asian style); chili pepper; nanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions; thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm; in kabuki, dance, puppetry, etc.)
- —南部Popularsouthern part; the south (of a region)
- —南方Popularthe south; southward; southern direction; countries in the south (esp. Southeast Asia and the pre-WWII South Pacific Mandate)
- —南西Popularsouthwest
- —南東Popularsoutheast
- —中南米PopularCentral and South America
- —南氷洋PopularAntarctic Ocean
- —南北問題PopularNorth-South problem
- —南south wind tile; winning hand with a pung (or kong) of south wind tiles
- —越南Vietnam
- —以南... and southward; in and to the south of ...
- —華南South China