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楠

nán

Character

What 楠 means

1. Machilus nanmu
2. Chinese cedar
3. Chinese giant redwood

Other readings

楠 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• nánvariant of {楠|nán}
• nánvariant of {楠|nán}

Example sentences

• 石楠花开完了吗？
  Are the heather plants done flowering?
• 石楠花通常是淡紫色的。
  Heather flowers are usually mauve.
• 石楠花有助于抑制花园里的杂草。
  Heathers help to suppress weeds in your garden.
• 石楠花非常适合种在这个花园，因为它们四季常青。
  Heathers would be wonderful for this garden because they're gonna be green all year.

Words starting with 楠

• 楠木nán mùPhoebe zhennan; Machilus nanmu; Chinese cedar
• 楠格哈尔省Nán gé hā ěr shěngNangarhar province of Afghanistan
• 楠梓Nán zǐNanzi or Nantzu district of Kaohsiung city 高雄市
• 楠梓区Nán zǐ qūNanzi or Nantzu district of Kaohsiung city 高雄市
• 楠竹nán zhúsee 毛竹

Words containing 楠

• 王楠Wáng NánWang Nan (1978-), female PRC table tennis player, Olympic medalist
• 石楠shí nánChinese photinia (Photinia serratifolia)

Characters built on 南

These share the phonetic component 南 (nán), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 喃nánmumble in repetition
• 腩nǎnbrisket; belly beef; spongy meat from cow's underside and neighboring ribs
• 蝻nǎnlocust nymph

Characters that look like 楠

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 缝féngto sew; to stitch
• 蛛zhū(bound form) spider
• 棵kēclassifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc
• 揣chuāito put into (one's pockets, clothes); Taiwan pr. chuǎi
• 榛zhēn(bound form) hazelnut tree (Corylus heterophylla)
• 裱biǎoto hang (paper); to mount (painting)

Sounds the same

Read nán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 难difficult (to...); problem; difficulty
• 男(bound form) male; baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位
• 南south
• 喃mumble in repetition
• 暔name of a country
• 諵mumble in repetition
• 侽old variant of 男
• 娚old variant of 喃