楠

See also: 枏

楠	U+6960, 楠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6960

← 楟
[U+695F]

CJK Unified Ideographs

楡 →
[U+6961]

Translingual

Han character

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

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 540, character 11
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15152
Dae Jaweon: page 927, character 18
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1244, character 3
Unihan data for U+6960

Chinese

simp. and trad.		楠
alternative forms		枏柟

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

Vulgarized from 枏. Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *nuːm): semantic 木 (“wood; tree”) + phonetic 南 (OC *nuːm).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): nán (nan²)

(Zhuyin): ㄋㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): naam⁴
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): lâm

(Teochew, Peng'im): lam⁵ / nam⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: nán
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: nán
  - Wade–Giles: nan²
  - Yale: nán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nan
  - Palladius: нань (nanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /nän³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: naam⁴
  - Yale: nàahm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: naam⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: nam⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /naːm²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lâm
  - Tâi-lô: lâm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: laam
  - IPA (Xiamen): /lam²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lam²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /lam¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /lam²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lam²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: lam⁵ / nam⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lâm / nâm
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lam⁵⁵/, /nam⁵⁵/

Note:

lam5 - Chaozhou;
nam5 - Shantou.

Middle Chinese: nom

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
Baxter	nom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/nʌm/
Pan Wuyun	/nəm/
Shao Rongfen	/nɒm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/nəm/
Li Rong	/nᴀm/
Wang Li	/nɒm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/năm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	naam⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*nuːm/

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

Etymology 1

Definitions

楠

nanmu tree (Machilus nanmu or Phoebe zhennan)
name of various species of Phoebe and Machilus

Compounds

大葉楠 / 大叶楠
梓楠堤 (Zǐnándī)
楠木 (nánmù)
楠梓 (Nánzǐ, “Nanzih”)
楩楠 (piánnán)
楨楠 / 桢楠
楠榴
楠櫧林帶 / 楠槠林带 (nánzhūlíndài)
楠竹
楠西 (Nánxī)
石楠
紅楠 / 红楠
紫楠
高楠 (Gāonán)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Thai น่าน (nâan).

Alternative forms

難／难 (nán)

Definitions

楠

(～府) Nan province (of Thailand)
(～市) Nan city
(～河) Nan river

Japanese

Kanji

楠

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

camphor tree

Readings

Go-on: なん (nan)^{←なん (nan, historical)}^{←なむ (namu, ancient)}
Kan-on: だん (dan)^{←だん (dan, historical)}^{←だむ (damu, ancient)}
Kun: くす (kusu, 楠)、くすのき (kusunoki, 楠)
Nanori: くず (kuzu)、な (na)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
楠
くす Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 楠 – see the following entry.

【くすクス】

[noun] synonym of くすのき (kusu-no-ki)

Alternative spelling
樟

(This term, 楠, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
楠
くすのき Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 楠 – see the following entry.

【くすのき】

[noun] camphor tree, Cinnamomum camphora

Alternative spellings
樟, クスノキ

(This term, 楠, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Tày

Noun

楠 (nam)

Nôm form of nam (“thorn, spine”).

References

Dương Nhật Thanh, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[1] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]

Vietnamese

Han character

楠: Hán Nôm readings: nêm, nam

chữ Hán form of nêm (“(to) wedge, to pack”)