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南宋 (Nán sòng): meaning and stroke order

南宋 (Nán sòng) means the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279).

南宋

Simplified
南宋
Traditional
南宋 (same form)
Pinyin
Nán sòng

Stroke order of 南宋

南

  • Nán surname Nan
  • nā used in 南無|南无[na1 mo2]; Taiwan pr. [na2]
  • nán south
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

宋

  • Sòng surname Song; the Song dynasty (960–1279)
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 南宋

  1. Nán sòng
    • the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)

Radicals of the characters

南
Radical 十 (Kangxi radical 24) · 9 strokes
宋
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 7 strokes · 宀 on top, 木 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

南宋 in our stories

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  • 七百多年前的南宋，有一位叫宋慈的官员，一生审理过无数案件，被后人称为“法医学之父”。

    qībǎi duō nián qián de Nán Sòng yǒu yí wèi jiào Sòng Cí de guānyuán yìshēng shěnlǐ guò wúshù ànjiàn bèi hòurén chēngwéi fǎyīxué zhī fù

    Over seven hundred years ago, in the Southern Song, there was an official named Song Ci who handled countless cases in his life and was later called the father of forensic medicine.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 南宋

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).