南
nán
Pinyin

Definition

南
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nán
  1. south
南
 - 
Nán
  1. surname Nan

Character Decomposition

Compounds (7)

献
xiàn
  1. 1 to offer
  2. 2 to present
  3. 3 to dedicate
  4. 4 to donate
  5. 5 to show
  6. 6 to put on display
  7. 7 worthy person (old)
喃
nán
  1. 1 mumble in repetition
楠
nán
  1. 1 variant: 楠 nán
楠
nán
  1. 1 variant: 楠 nán
楠
nán
  1. 1 Machilus nanmu
  2. 2 Chinese cedar
  3. 3 Chinese giant redwood

Related Words (20)

南
Nán
  1. 1 surname Nan
南京
Nán jīng
  1. 1 Nanjing subprovincial city on the Changjiang, capital of Jiangsu province 江蘇|江苏
  2. 2 capital of China at different historical periods
南宁
Nán níng
  1. 1 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
南方
nán fāng
  1. 1 south
  2. 2 the southern part of the country
  3. 3 the South
江南
Jiāng nán
  1. 1 south of Changjiang or Yangtze river
  2. 2 south of the lower reaches of Changjiang
  3. 3 often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces
  4. 4 a province during Qing times
  5. 5 in literature, refers to the sunny south
  6. 6 Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea)

Idioms (10)

一个天南，一个地北
yī ge tiān nán , yī ge dì běi
  1. 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
不撞南墙不回头
bù zhuàng nán qiáng bù huí tóu
  1. 1 to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom)
南征北伐
nán zhēng běi fá
  1. 1 war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
南征北战
nán zhēng běi zhàn
  1. 1 war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
南征北讨
nán zhēng běi tǎo
  1. 1 war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters

Sample Sentences

这家公司在越南开设了新工厂。
zhè jiā gōngsī zài Yuènán kāishè le Xīn gōngchǎng 。
This company set up a new factory in Vietnam.
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据世卫组织报告，全球新冠肺炎确诊人数已超过127万，病亡人数逾7万。中国工程院院士、著名呼吸病学专家钟南山说：“希望各国都能继续全力投入到疫情防控中去，相信我们终将战胜疫情。”
jù ShìwèiZǔzhī bàogào ，quánqiú xīnguānfèiyán quèzhěn rénshù yǐ chāoguò yībǎièrshíqī wàn ，bìngwáng rénshù yú qī wàn 。ZhōngguóGōngchéngyuàn yuànshì 、zhùmíng hūxībìngxué zhuānjiā zhōngnánshān shuō ：“xīwàng gèguó dōu néng jìxù quánlì tóurù dào yìqíng fángkòng zhōng qù ，xiāngxìn wǒmen zhōngjiāng zhànshèng yìqíng 。”
According to a WHO report, confirmed cases of COVID-19 has exceeded 1.27 million, and caused around 70 thousand deaths. Zhong Nan Shan, a fellow of Chinese Academy of Engineering and a renowned respiratory expert said, "I hope every country is putting every effort into preventing and controlling the pandemic, and I believe that we will defeat it as last."
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南京
nán jīng
Nanjing
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海南
hǎi nán
Hainan
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河南
hé Nán
Henan
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西南地区是块硬骨头，要不是你下得工夫足，我们可能还真是啃不下来呢。
xīnán dìqū shì kuài yìng gǔtou ，yàobushì nǐ xià de gōngfū jù ，wǒmen kěnéng hái zhēnshi kěn bù xiàlai ne 。
The southwest region is a difficult region, if not for your time and effort we would not have taken down this region.
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小刘，你这次面向西南地区的销售工作推进得相当不错呀。
xiǎoliú ，nǐ zhè cì miànxiàng xīnán dìqū de xiāoshòu gōngzuò tuījìn de xiāngdāng bùcuò ya 。
Xiao Liu, the sales progress from your work in the southwest region has been quite good.
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西南地区相当于咱们公司进军全国的敲门砖呀，这确实是关键举措。
xīnán dìqū xiāngdāngyú zánmen gōngsī jìnjūn quánguó de qiāoménzhuān ya ，zhè quèshí shì guānjiàn jǔcuò 。
The southwest region is equivalent to a stepping stone for our company to enter the entire market. This is indeed a key measure.
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不过M公司对西南市场也是虎视眈眈，他们资历、规模与我们相当不能放松呀。
bùguò gōngsī duì xīnán shìchǎng yě shì hǔshìdāndān ，tāmen zīlì 、guīmó yǔ wǒmen xiāngdāng bùnéng fàngsōng ya 。
However, M company is also eyeing the southwest market. We mustn’t relax as their qualifications and scale are quite comparable to us.
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若干年后齐宣王过世，他的儿子齐愍王继承了王位。这位齐愍王和他爹一样也喜欢听人吹奏竽，不同的是，他喜欢听独奏。有天，他颁布了道命令，要求隔天让那三百位乐师逐一吹竽给他听。乐师们听闻命令都相当开心，大家都想要在君王面前大展身手，只有那位滥竽充数的南郭先生觉得非常心虚，十分焦虑。心想：”这可是欺君之罪，要杀头的啊！我还不得赶紧溜之大吉？”于是连忙收拾行李，有多远逃多远了。
ruògān nián hòu QíXuānwáng guòshì ，tā de érzi QíMǐnwáng jìchéng le wángwèi 。zhèwèi QíMǐnwáng hé tā diē yīyàng yě xǐhuan tīng rén chuīzòu yú ，bùtóng de shì ，tā xǐhuan tīng dúzòu 。yǒu tiān ，tā bānbù le dào mìnglìng ，yāoqiú gétiān ràng nà sān bǎi wèi yuèshī zhúyī chuī yú gěi tā tīng 。yuèshī men tīngwén mìnglìng dōu xiāngdāng kāixīn ，dàjiā dōu xiǎngyào zài jūnwáng miànqián dàzhǎnshēnshǒu ，zhǐyǒu nà wèi lànyúchōngshù de Nánguō xiānsheng juéde fēicháng xīnxū ，shífēn jiāolǜ 。xīnxiǎng ：”zhè kěshì qījūnzhīzuì ，yào shātóu de a ！wǒ hái bùdé gǎnjǐn liūzhīdàjí ？”yúshì liánmáng shōushi xíngli ，yǒu duō yuǎn táo duō yuǎn le 。
Some years later, the King passed away and his son, the King Min, inherited the throne. The King was similar to his dad in that he also loved listening to the yu. The difference was that he preferred solo performances. One day, he enacted an order, asking the 300 musicians to play the yu for him one by one. The musicians were quite happy to hear this order since they all wanted to show their talent in front of the King. However, Nan Guo, who has been pretending to play the yu, felt very guilty and anxious about this order. He thought “This is a crime of deceiving the King, people are decapitated over this! I must escape right this moment!” So he urgently packed his luggage and fled as far as he could.
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