南: kanji meaning and names
Meanings, readings and the names that use it.
Kanji facts
- Meaning
- south
- On readings (katakana)
- ナン、ナ
- Kun readings (hiragana)
- みなみ
- Readings used in names (nanori)
- なみ、は、みな、みまみ
- Strokes
- 9
- Grade
- 2: kyōiku kanji, taught in elementary school year 2
- Newspaper frequency rank
- 341 of the 2,500 kanji most used in newspapers
- Korean reading (hangul)
- 남
In kun readings a dot separates the stem from the ending that is written in hiragana after the kanji (ひと.つ), and a hyphen marks a prefix or a suffix (ひと-).
Names that use 南
These names have a written form that contains this kanji.