南 nán
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 十 — ten, tenth
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
南部
nánbù
southern part
Characters in this word
部 bù
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 阝 — place, town, city
- Made of
- 咅 to spit out 阝 place, town, city
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我住在南部。 Wǒ zhù zài nán bù. I live in the southern part.
- 南部天气很热。 Nán bù tiān qì hěn rè. The weather is very hot in the south.
- 他来自南部。 Tā lái zì nán bù. He comes from the southern part.