喃 — nam

Parts that make up 喃

How 喃 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 喃 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 口, 南.

Japanese words with 喃

• 喃のう excuse me! (when calling out to someone); right?; don't you agree?
• 喃語なんご lover's whispers; sweet nothings; whispered intimacies
• 字喃チュノム chu nom (formerly used Vietnamese script based on Chinese characters)
• 喃々なんなん chatteringly; wittering on; prattling on
• 喋々喃々ちょうちょうなんなん billing and cooing; holding an intimate, long-winded conversation in whispers

Characters sharing the phonetic 南

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “남” in Korean.

Other hanja read “남”

Other hanja with radical 口