nán

keep talking

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

南 sound component

  Sound component

nán

  

south

Definitions

 

nán

keep talking, chattering; mumble; mumble in repetition

Most common words with 喃
Freq.
Word
Meaning

喃喃

to mumble

mumble in repetition

呢喃

whispering

喃喃自语

to mumble to oneself

呋喃

furan (furfuran, used in making nylon) (loanword)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2233rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+5583


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