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南北

nán běi

2-character word

What 南北 means

1. north and south
2. north to south

The characters in 南北

• 南nánsouth
• 北běinorth; (classical) to be defeated

Example sentences

• 南北战争持续了四年。
  America's Civil War lasted four years.
• 这篇小说的中心点是南北战争。
  Zhè piān xiǎoshuō de zhōngxīndiǎn shì nánběi zhànzhēng.
  The novel is centered on the Civil War.
• 他写了本关于美国南北战争的书。
  He wrote a book about the American Civil War.
• 南北朝在他们的统治之下失败了的原因是他们让文学的光辉超越了实质内容。
  Nán Běicháo zài tāmen de tǒngzhì zhīxià shībài le de yuányīn shì tāmen ràng wénxué de guānghuī chāoyuè le shízhì nèiróng.
  The reason the Northern and Southern Dynasties had failed in their rule was that they allowed literary splendor to surpass real substance.

Words starting with 南北

• 南北朝Nán Běi cháoNorthern and Southern dynasties (420-589)
• 南北极nán běi jísouth and north poles
• 南北美Nán Běi MěiNorth and South America
• 南北长nán běi chángnorth-south distance
• 南北韩nán běi HánNorth and South Korea

Words containing 南北

• 大江南北Dà jiāng nán běinorth and south sides of the Yangtze River (idiom); (fig.) all over China
• 东西南北dōng xī nán běieast west south north
• 魏晋南北朝Wèi Jìn Nán Běi CháoWei, Jin and North-South dynasties; generic term for historic period 220-589 between Han…