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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.

南瓜灯nán guā dēng

jack-o'-lantern

南疆nán jiāng

southern border (of a country)

南竹nán zhú

see 毛竹[máo zhú]

南美梨nán měi lí

avocado (Persea americana)

南腔北调nán qiāng běi diào

a regional accent

南辕北辙nán yuán běi zhé

to act in a way that defeats one's purpose (idiom)

南边儿nán bian r

erhua variant of 南邊|南边[nán bian]

南飞过冬nán fēi guò dōng

(of birds) to migrate south for the winter

一个天南,一个地北yī ge tiān nán , yī ge dì běi

to live miles apart

不撞南墙不回头bù zhuàng nán qiáng bù huí tóu

to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom)

司南sī nán

ancient Chinese compass

回南天huí nán tiān

weather phenomenon characterized by condensation of warm moist air on cool surfaces during the transition from winter to spring in Southern China

寿比南山shòu bǐ Nán Shān

Live as long as the Zhongnan Mountains! (idiom) / Long may you live!

天南地北tiān nán dì běi

(idiom) far apart / (idiom) from different places / from all over / (idiom) (to talk) about this and that

天南海北tiān nán hǎi běi

see 天南地北[tiān nán dì běi]

安南子ān nán zǐ

see 胖大海[pàng dà hǎi]

指南车zhǐ nán chē

a mechanical compass invented by Zu Chongzhi 祖沖之|祖冲之

东南西北dōng nán xī běi

east, south, west and north / all directions

东南西北中dōng nán xī běi zhōng

the five directions 五方 east, south, west, north and middle

东西南北dōng xī nán běi

east west south north

极南jí nán

extreme south

海南鳈hǎi nán quán

Sarcocheilichthys hainanensis, a species of cyprinid fish found in China, Laos and Vietnam

海南鳽hǎi nán yán

(bird species of China) white-eared night heron (Oroanassa magnifica)

石南属shí nán shǔ

heather

石南树shí nán shù

heath

石南花shí nán huā

heather (Ericaceae)

西南亚xī nán yà

southwest Asia

西南冠纹柳莺xī nán guān wén liǔ yīng

(bird species of China) Blyth's leaf warbler (Phylloscopus reguloides)

西南官话xī nán guān huà

Southwestern Mandarin, dialect group of Mandarin spoken primarily in southwestern China

西南栗耳凤鹛xī nán lì ěr fèng méi

(bird species of China) striated yuhina (Yuhina castaniceps)

走南闯北zǒu nán chuǎng běi

to travel extensively

南美Nán Měi

South America

南非Nán fēi

South Africa / Southern Africa

越南Yuè nán

Vietnam

布坎南Bù kǎn nán

(surname) Buchanan

南希Nán xī

Nancy

南京Nán jīng

see 南京市[Nán jīng Shì] / Nanjing, capital of the Ming dynasty (1368–1421) and of the Republic of China (1927–1937 and 1946–1949)

南韩Nán hán

(Tw, HK) South Korea

南美洲Nán měi zhōu

South America

南斯拉夫Nán sī lā fū

Yugoslavia (former country that existed in various forms from 1918 to 2003)

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