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南北朝

Nán Běi cháo

3-character word

What 南北朝 means

1. Northern and Southern dynasties (420-589)

The characters in 南北朝

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

Example sentences

• 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 containing 南北朝

• 魏晋南北朝Wèi Jìn Nán Běi CháoWei, Jin and North-South dynasties; generic term for historic period 220-589 between Han…