Illustration: At a campsite picnic table, two hikers lean over an unlabelled relief map of Japan with Hokkaido at its far edge and Kyushu toward the near edge. A compass rests flat beside it, its distinctive north-seeking needle tip pointing toward the map's Hokkaido end.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

南みなみ

minami

south

Example sentences

南みなみのほうから雲くもが出でてきている。
The clouds are coming from the south.
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風かぜは南みなみへ吹ふく。
The wind blows south.
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鳥とりは南みなみへ飛とんで行いった。
The birds flew to the south.
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Kanji in 南

南southOnナン・ナKunみなみ

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