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
- —南部暦picture calendar
- —ダブ南pung (or kong) of south tiles when south is both the round wind and one's seat wind (meld)
- —最南端southernmost tip (point, extremity, etc.)
- —岩南天keiskei fetterbush (Leucothoe keiskei); doghobble; dog hobble
- —南蛮宗Christianity
- —南蛮寺Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century
- —海南省Hainan Province (China)
- —河南省Henan Province (China)
- —湖南省Hunan Province (China)
- —雲南省Yunnan Province (China)
- —南部石nambulite
- —淮南子Huainanzi (ancient Chinese collection of essays)
- —指南書handbook; instruction book; manual
- —南海道Nankaidō (alt. name for the Shikoku region)
- —越南語Vietnamese (language)
- —鶏南蛮chicken nanban
- —南東部southeastern part; the southeast
- —南西部southwestern part; the southwest
- —南部弁Nambu dialect (spoken in western Aomori)
- —南蘋派Nanpin school of Japanese painting (Edo period)