Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
ten, complete
Parts:
south
Kun:
みなみ
On:
ナン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
341 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 南 【ナン】 south wind tile, winning hand with a pung (or kong) of south wind tiles
  • 南海 【ナンカイ】 southern sea
  • 東南 【トウナン】 south-east
  • 西南 【セイナン】 south-west
  • 南 【ナン】 south wind tile, winning hand with a pung (or kong) of south wind tiles
  • 南海 【ナンカイ】 southern sea

Kun reading compounds

  • 南 【みなみ】 south
  • 南アフリカ 【みなみアフリカ】 South Africa
  • 東南 【とうなん】 south-east
  • 西南 【せいなん】 south-west

Readings

Japanese names:
なみ、 は、 みな、 みまみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
nan2, na1
Korean:
nam

Spanish

  • Sur

Portuguese

  • sul

French

  • sud
124 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
208 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
190 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
205 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
778 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
157 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
29 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
912 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.20 Japanese for Busy People
74 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
74 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
41 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
247 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2584 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1320 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1791 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1627 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2750 Morohashi
2082 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
619 New Nelson (John Haig)
1613 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1740 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
401 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
186 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1553 2001 Kanji
2k7.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-7 SKIP code
3-4-5 SKIP code
4022.7 Four corner code
1-38-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5357 Unicode hex code

17 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 絵ろうそく 【エロウソク】 candle decorated with coloured pictures (esp. of flowers or birds)
  • 裸蝋燭 【ハダカロウソク】 naked candle, uncovered candle, unshaded candle
  • 燭 【ショク】 light, lamp, obsolete unit of luminous intensity (approx. 1.0067 candela)
  • 燭台 【ショクダイ】 candlestick, candlestand
  • 華燭 【カショク】 bright light, wedding ceremony
  • 手燭 【テショク】 portable candlestick

Kun reading compounds

  • 灯火 【ともしび】 light, lamp, torch

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhu2
Korean:
chog

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2811 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1391 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1008 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
19480 Morohashi
3496 New Nelson (John Haig)
2539 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2976 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4d13.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-13 SKIP code
9682.7 Four corner code
1-31-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
71ed Unicode hex code