なんきょく

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of なんきょく – see the following entries.
南極
[noun] ellipsis of 南極圏: south polar region
[proper noun] South Pole
[proper noun] Antarctica (the southernmost continent, south of the Southern Ocean, containing the South Pole)
難局
[noun] difficult situation / position; jam; strait
(This term, なんきょく (nankyoku), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)

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