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

12 strokes
Radical:
mound, dam (阝 left) 阜 (阝)
Parts:
corner, nook
Kun:
すみ
On:
グウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1601 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 一隅 【イチグウ】 corner, nook
  • 四隅 【ヨスミ】 four corners, four ordinal directions

Kun reading compounds

  • 隅 【すみ】 corner, nook, recess, downstage right (on a noh stage)
  • 隅々 【すみずみ】 every corner, every nook and cranny, all the ins and outs
  • 四隅 【よすみ】 four corners, four ordinal directions
  • 一隅 【いちぐう】 corner, nook

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yu2
Korean:
u

Spanish

  • esquina
  • rincón

Portuguese

  • esquina
  • canto

French

  • coin
  • recoin
1187 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1686 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5009 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
990 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1566 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1640 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1753 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1239 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
744 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
760 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
450 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
568 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1977 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41743X Morohashi
623 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6467 New Nelson (John Haig)
1958 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2108 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1599 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3653 2001 Kanji
2d9.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
1-3-8 SKIP code
1-2-8 SKIP code
7622.7 Four corner code
1-22-89 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9685 Unicode hex code