日南

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Chinese

day; sun; date
day; sun; date; day of the month; Japan (abbrev.)
 
south
simp. and trad.
(日南)
anagram 南日

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (38) (8)
Final () (48) (159)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter nyit nom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵiɪt̚/ /nʌm/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵit̚/ /nəm/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑjet̚/ /nɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵit̚/ /nəm/
Li
Rong
/ȵiĕt̚/ /nᴀm/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭĕt̚/ /nɒm/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯ĕt̚/ /năm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jat6 naam4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
nán
Middle
Chinese
‹ nyit › ‹ nom ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.nik/ /*nˁm/
English sun; day south

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 10845 9355
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njiɡ/ /*nuːm/

Etymology 1

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Proper noun

日南

  1. (historical) () Rinan (an ancient commandery in modern Vietnam)

Etymology 2

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese (にち)(なん) (Nichinan).

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Proper noun

日南

  1. () Nichinan (a city in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan)
  2. () Nichinan (a town in Tottori Prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
にち
Grade: 1
なん
Grade: 2
on'yomi

Proper noun

(にち)(なん) (Nichinan

  1. Nichinan (a city in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan)
  2. Nichinan (a town in Tottori Prefecture, Japan)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
なみ
Grade: 2
kun'yomi nanori

Proper noun

()(なみ) (Hinami

  1. a surname