日南

Chinese

		day; sun; date day; sun; date; day of the month; Japan (abbrev.)	south
simp. and trad. (日南)		日	南
anagram		南日

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Rìnán

  (Zhuyin): ㄖˋ ㄋㄢˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Rìnán
    • Zhuyin: ㄖˋ ㄋㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Rìhnán
    • Wade–Giles: Jih⁴-nan²
    • Yale: R̀-nán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Ryhnan
    • Palladius: Жинань (Žinanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐ̩⁵¹ nän³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: nyit nom

Rime
Character	日	南
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	日 (38)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	質 (48)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	人質切	那含切
Baxter	nyit	nom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵiɪt̚/	/nʌm/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵit̚/	/nəm/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjet̚/	/nɒm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵit̚/	/nəm/
Li Rong	/ȵiĕt̚/	/nᴀm/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭĕt̚/	/nɒm/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯ĕt̚/	/năm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	rì	nán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jat6	naam4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.nik  nˤ[ə]m/

  (Zhengzhang): /*njiɡ  nuːm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	日	南
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	rì	nán
Middle Chinese	‹ nyit ›	‹ nom ›
Old Chinese	/*C.nik/	/*nˁ[ə]m/
English	sun; day	south
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	日	南
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	10845	9355
Phonetic component	日	南
Rime group	質	侵
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	日	南
Old Chinese	/*njiɡ/	/*nuːm/

Etymology 1

Proper noun

日南

1. (historical) (～郡) Rinan (an ancient commandery in modern Vietnam)

Etymology 2

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 日(にち)南(なん) (Nichinan).

Proper noun

日南

1. (～市) Nichinan (a city in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan)
2. (～町) Nichinan (a town in Tottori Prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
日	南
にち Grade: 1	なん Grade: 2
on'yomi

Proper noun

日(にち)南(なん) • (Nichinan) 

1. Nichinan (a city in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan)
2. Nichinan (a town in Tottori Prefecture, Japan)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
日	南
ひ Grade: 1	なみ Grade: 2
kun'yomi	nanori

Proper noun

日(ひ)南(なみ) • (Hinami) 

1. a surname