IDENTITY
南nánsouth
HSK 1Top 250
CORE MEANING
south
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.southHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 十ten radical (shí)
- strokes
- 9
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱十⿵冂𢆉
- top
- frame
- part of the structure
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
南边nánbiansouth side
南方nánfāngthe South
Graded examples
窗户朝南。Chuānghu cháo nán.HSK3
The window faces south.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
A frame (冂) warmed by the noon sun — the south, the sunny side.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #250
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
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