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西南

xī nán

HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

西南 (xī nán) means "southwest". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 西南 means

1. southwest

The characters in 西南

• 西xīwest
• 南nánsouth

Example sentences

• 我会普通话、西南官话、吴语和西班牙语。
  Wǒ huì pǔtōnghuà, xīnán guānhuà, Wúyǔ hé Xībānyáyǔ.
  I can speak Standard Chinese (Putonghua), Southwestern Mandarin, Wu Chinese, and Spanish.
• 在伦敦，我住的饭店靠近巴比肯艺术中心。一次难忘的经验是用报纸包着，吃美味的炸鱼薯条，这在北美人家里是无法复制的。我最喜欢的英国人是奥拉夫斯塔普雷顿和 J.R.R. 托尔金，他们分别是科幻作家和奇幻作家。我曾经透过卫星图像勘察过不列颠群岛，英格兰西南部是一个非常有趣的地区，那里有古朴的城镇和小村庄。
  In London, my hotel was near the Barbican Centre. A memorable event was eating delicious fish and chips wrapped in newspaper, which back home, North Americans could not replicate. My favourite Brits are Olaf Stapledon and J.R.R. Tolkien, respectively a sci-fi writer and a fantasy writer. I have surveyed the British Isles via satellite imagery, and a really interesting area is southwestern England, where there are quaint towns and hamlets.

Words starting with 西南

• 西南部xī nán bùsouthwest part
• 西南亚xī nán yàsouthwest Asia
• 西南大学Xī nán Dà xuéSouthwest University (Chongqing)
• 西南交通大学Xī nán Jiāo tōng Dà xuéSouthwest Jiaotong University
• 西南官话xī nán guān huàSouthwestern Mandarin, dialect group of Mandarin spoken primarily in southwestern China
• 西南中沙群岛Xī nán zhōng shā Qún dǎoXinanzhongsha islands, Hainan
• 西南冠纹柳莺xī nán guān wén liǔ yīng(bird species of China) Blyth's leaf warbler (Phylloscopus reguloides)
• 西南栗耳凤鹛xī nán lì ěr fèng méi(bird species of China) striated yuhina (Yuhina castaniceps)

Words containing 西南

• 东西南北dōng xī nán běieast west south north
• 国立西南联合大学Guó lì Xī nán Lián hé Dà xuéNational Southwest Combined University…
• 黔西南布依族苗族自治州Qián xī nán Bù yī zú Miáo zú Zì zhì zhōuQianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in Guizhou Province 贵州省
• 黔西南Qián xī nánsee 黔西南布依族苗族自治州
• 黔西南州Qián xī nán Zhōusee 黔西南布依族苗族自治州

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