Pinyin: nán

south

Example sentence

冬天鸟往南飞。

Dōngtiān niǎo wǎng nán fēi.

Birds fly south in winter.

What 南 means

(nán) is a Chinese word meaning “south”. It belongs to the Places & Travel topic and appears at HSK 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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