Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

南洋

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Remove ads

Chinese

More information south, ocean; foreign ...
Wikipedia has an article on:

Pronunciation


Note:
  • lam5 iên5 - Chaozhou;
  • nam5 ion5 - Jieyang.

Proper noun

南洋

  1. (dated) Malay Archipelago; (in general) Southeast Asia, Nanyang
    南洋   xià Nányáng   to migrate to Southeast Asia (during late Qing and the Republic of China era)
  2. (historical, Qing to early ROC) southerncoastal” region of China, inclusive of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong
  3. (historical) irrigation plain south of the Mulan River in Fujian

Synonyms

  • (Southeast Asia):

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

  • 南洋人
  • 南洋大臣
  • 南洋杉
  • 南洋海軍 / 南洋海军
  • 南洋群島 / 南洋群岛 (Nányáng Qúndǎo)
  • 南洋航線 / 南洋航线
  • 南洋通商大臣

Descendants

  • English: Nanyang

See also

Remove ads

Japanese

Korean

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads