南下

Chinese

south
 
under; next; lower
under; next; lower; below; underneath; down(wards); to go down; latter
simp. and trad.
(南下)
南 下
anagram 下南

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 南 下
Reading # 1/1 2/2
Initial (聲) 泥 (8) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 覃 (159) 麻 (98)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I II
Fanqie 那含切 胡駕切
Baxter nom haeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/nʌm/ /ɦˠaH/
Pan
Wuyun
/nəm/ /ɦᵚaH/
Shao
Rongfen
/nɒm/ /ɣaH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/nəm/ /ɦaɨH/
Li
Rong
/nᴀm/ /ɣaH/
Wang
Li
/nɒm/ /ɣaH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/năm/ /ɣaH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nán xià
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
naam4 haa6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 南 下
Reading # 1/1 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
nán xià
Middle
Chinese
‹ nom › ‹ hæH ›
Old
Chinese
/*nˁ[ə]m/ /*m-ɡˁraʔ-s/
English south descend

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 南 下
Reading # 1/1 2/2
No. 9355 13446
Phonetic
component
南 下
Rime
group
侵 魚
Rime
subdivision
2 0
Corresponding
MC rime
南 暇
Old
Chinese
/*nuːm/ /*ɡraːs/

Verb

南下

  1. to go south
    1. to travel from Mainland China to Hong Kong or Macau

Synonyms

Antonyms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (南下):
  • → Japanese: 南(なん)下(か) (nanka)
  • → Korean: 남하(南下) (namha)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
南 下
なん
Grade: 2
か
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Pronunciation

    • (Tokyo) なんか [nàńká] (Heiban – [0])[1]
    • IPA(key): [nã̠ŋka̠]

    Noun

    南(なん)下(か) • (nanka) 

    1. going south

    Verb

    南(なん)下(か)する • (nanka suru) suru (stem 南(なん)下(か)し (nanka shi), past 南(なん)下(か)した (nanka shita))

    1. to go south

    Conjugation

    References

    1. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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