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南极

nánjí

South Pole

HSK 5 · Topic “Nature around us”
Penguin on an ice mound
Memory picture

Characters in this word

南 nán

Strokes
9
Radical
十 — ten, tenth
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing

极 jí

Strokes
7
Radical
木 — tree
Made of
木 tree 及 to extend
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 南极很冷。 Nánjí hěn lěng. The South Pole is very cold.
  • 我想去南极。 Wǒ xiǎng qù Nánjí. I want to go to the South Pole.
  • 南极很远。 Nánjí hěn yuǎn. The South Pole is very far away.

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