南
nánnāNán HSK1

south

南 nán frequency
south directional

这栋房子的窗户是朝南开的。

zhè dòng fáng​zi de chuāng​hu shì cháo nán kāi de.

The windows of this house face south.

南 nā
phonetic abbreviation
specifically used in the Buddhist transliteration 'Namo'

那位僧人正在低声念诵着“南无”。

nà wèi sēng​rén zhèng​zài dī​shēng niàn​sòng zhe“ nā​mó”.

The monk was chanting 'Namo' in a low voice.

南 Nán
surname Nan proper name

南怀瑾是一位著名的国学大师。

Nán Huái​jǐn shì yī wèi zhù​míng de guó​xué dà​shī.

Nan Huai-Chin was a famous master of Chinese culture.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)