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楠

nán
#3,692 most
frequent character
Machilus nanmu, Chinese cedar

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

楠 nán has 木 wood for meaning and 南 nán for sound. It first named the camphor tree. From the tree came the meaning camphor wood.

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Same Characters, Different Readings

楠nán
variant of 楠[nan2]
楠nán
variant of 楠[nan2]

Homophones

HSK 3
南nán
south
HSK 3
难nán
difficult (to...), problem
男nán
Man

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