南

• 読み: みなみ
• ローマ字: minami
• 漢字の分解: 南 (minami/nan) — south
• 発音: /mi.na.mi/

意味

South. One of the four cardinal directions, often associated with warmth and used in place names.

A noun for the cardinal direction south. Used in place names such as 南アメリカ (South America) and 南口 (south exit). Can be read as みなみ in native Japanese or なん in Sino-Japanese compounds like 南極 (nankyoku, South Pole).

例文

1. 沖縄は日本の南にあります。
2. 南口を出て左に曲がってください。
3. 今日は南から暖かい風が来ています。

使い方ガイド

場面: directions, place names, geography

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

From Old Japanese. The kanji 南 is believed to have originally depicted a type of musical instrument, but was borrowed phonetically in Chinese to represent the southern direction.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal