南
nánnā HSK1

south

南 nán frequency
south nounproper noun
south; southern; directional cardinal point opposite to 北 běi

我面朝南站着。

wǒ miàn cháo nán zhàn zhe.

I'm standing facing south.

Nan
surname Nan
Southern China
referring specifically to the southern regions of China, often in terms of style, food, or products
南 nā
[transliteration]
(bound form) used in Buddhist transliterations to mean "to devote oneself to" or "to pay respect to", as in 南无 nā​mó

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Frequency
Character
Written text
307th most common 718.7 per million
Movie subtitles
872nd most common 134.0 per million appears in 34% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
32.6 per million appears in 9% of films
Written text
111.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+5357

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)