喃

See also: 諵 and 娚

喃 U+5583, 喃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5583 ← 喂 [U+5582] CJK Unified Ideographs 善 → [U+5584]

Translingual

Han character

喃 (radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口十月十 (RJBJ), four-corner 6402₇, composition ⿰口南)

Derived characters

• 𬞑

References

• KangXi: page 197, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3903
• Dae Jaweon: page 418, character 37
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 650, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5583

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		喃

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (南) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
南	*nuːm
楠	*nuːm
腩	*nuːmʔ
湳	*nuːmʔ
揇	*nuːmʔ
萳	*nuːmʔ
罱	*ruːmʔ
喃	*rnuːm
諵	*rnuːm, *rnuːms

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *rnuːm): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 南 (OC *nuːm).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nán (nan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): naam⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: nán
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄢˊ
    • Wade–Giles: nan²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nan
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nán
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: naam⁴
    • Yale: nàahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: naam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: nam⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /näːm²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɳˠɛm/▼

Rime
Character	喃
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	娘 (12)
Final (韻)	咸 (151)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	女咸切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɳˠɛm/
Pan Wuyun	/ɳᵚæm/
Shao Rongfen	/nɐm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɳəɨm/
Li Rong	/nɐm/
Wang Li	/nɐm/
Bernard Karlgren	/năm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nán

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*rnuːm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	喃
Reading #	1/1
No.	9362
Phonetic component	南
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	諵
Old Chinese	/*rnuːm/
Notes	同諵

Definitions

喃

1. Used in 喃喃 (nánnán).
2. Used in 呢喃 (nínán).

Compounds

• 呢喃 (nínán)
• 呢喃細語／呢喃细语
• 喃喃 (nánnán)
• 喃喃低語／喃喃低语
• 喃喃吶吶／喃喃呐呐

• 喃喃咄咄
• 喃喃喏喏
• 喃喃篤篤／喃喃笃笃
• 喃喃細語／喃喃细语
• 喃喃自語／喃喃自语 (nánnánzìyǔ)

• 喃喃訥訥／喃喃讷讷
• 噥噥喃喃／哝哝喃喃
• 篤篤喃喃／笃笃喃喃
• 肚喃

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nǎn (nan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄢˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: nǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄢˇ
    • Wade–Giles: nan³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: naan
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nǎn
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nän²¹⁴/

Definitions

喃

1. Only used in 噆喃.

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): nán (nan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄢˊ

  (Chengdu, SP): nan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: nán
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄢˊ
    • Wade–Giles: nan²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nan
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nán
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nän³⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: nan¹
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: lan
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nan⁵⁵/

Definitions

喃

1. (Southwestern Mandarin) Interrogative particle, equivalent to 呢 (ne) in Standard Chinese.

Etymology 4

From Vietnamese 喃 (Nôm), in turn from Chinese 南 (“south”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nán (nan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): naam⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: nán
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄢˊ
    • Wade–Giles: nan²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nan
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nán
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: naam⁴
    • Yale: nàahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: naam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: nam⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /näːm²¹/

Definitions

喃

1. (of or relating to) chữ Nôm

Compounds

• 喃字 (nánzì)

• 字喃 (zìnán)

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nán (nan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): naam⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: nán
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄢˊ
    • Wade–Giles: nan²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nan
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nán
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: naam⁴
    • Yale: nàahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: naam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: nam⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /näːm²¹/

Definitions

喃

1. Used in transcription.

Compounds

• 吡喃 (bǐnán)
• 呋喃 (fūnán)
• 呋喃丙胺

• 呋喃唑酮 (fūnánzuòtóng)
• 呋喃坦啶
• 呋喃妥因

• 呋喃甲醇
• 呋喃西林
• 四氫呋喃／四氢呋喃 (sìqīngfūnán)

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Japanese

Kanji

喃

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: なん (nan)
• Kan-on: だん (dan)
• Kun: のう (nō, 喃)^{←なう (nau, historical)}

Compounds

• 字喃 (チュノム) (chunomu)
• 喋々喃々 (ちょうちょうなんなん) (chōchō nannan)
• 喃語 (なんご) (nango)
• 喃々 (なんなん) (nannan)
• 喃々 (のうのう) (nōnō)

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Korean

Hanja

喃 • (nam) (hangeul 남, revised nam, McCune–Reischauer nam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

喃 (nam, nôm)

1. common speech

Compounds

• 字喃, 𡨸喃, 𡦂喃 (chữ Nôm)