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楠

楠

See also: 枏

Translingual

Han character

楠 (radical 75 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木十月十 (DJBJ), four-corner 44927, composition ⿰木南)

References

  • KangXi: page 540, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15152
  • Dae Jaweon: page 927, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1244, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6960

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 楠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (南) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
南 *nuːm
楠 *nuːm
腩 *nuːmʔ
湳 *nuːmʔ
揇 *nuːmʔ
萳 *nuːmʔ
罱 *ruːmʔ
喃 *rnuːm
諵 *rnuːm, *rnuːms

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 楠
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 那含切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /nʌm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /nəm/
Shao
Rongfen		 /nɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /nəm/
Li
Rong		 /nᴀm/
Wang
Li		 /nɒm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /năm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 nán
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 楠
Reading # 1/1
No. 9356
Phonetic
component		 南
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 南
Old
Chinese		 /*nuːm/
Notes 見屍子俗同柟

Definitions

楠

  1. name of a tree — Machilus nanmu (sometimes classified as Persea nanmu)

Japanese

Kanji

楠

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. camphor tree

Readings

Noun

楠 ‎(hiragana くすのき, katakana クスノキ, romaji kusunoki)

  1. camphor tree

Synonyms

Proper noun

楠 ‎(hiragana くす, romaji Kusu)

  1. A surname​.

Korean

Hanja

楠 • ‎(nam) (hangeul 남, revised nam, McCune-Reischauer nam, Yale nam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

楠 (nêm, nam)

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