- 天南星 tiānnánxīng jack-in-the-pulpitA perennial herbaceous plant with a bulb-like stem that is used in medicine and as a pesticide; its berries are red and the entire plant is poisonous.
- 吴南星 wúnánxīng Wu Nanxingcollective pen name used by writers Deng Tuo, Wu Han, and Liao Mosha for their column in Frontline magazine in the early 1960s