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

(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.

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