南
Kana: みなみ
south
Example sentence
鳥は冬に南へ飛んでいきます。
とりはふゆにみなみへとんでいきます。
Birds fly south in winter.
What 南 means
南 (みなみ) is a Japanese word meaning “south”. It belongs to the Places & Travel topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.