# 楠

| 楠 | U+6960, &#26976; 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 4492$_7$, 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
### Glyph origin

| | 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 (nan$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄋㄢˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): naam$^4$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): lâm
    (Teochew, Peng'im): lam$^5$ / nam$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: nán
*** Zhuyin: ㄋㄢˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: nán
*** Wade–Giles: nan$^2$
*** Yale: nán
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nan
*** Palladius: нань (nanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /nän³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: naam$^4$
*** Yale: nàahm
*** Cantonese Pinyin: naam$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: nam$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /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: lam$^5$ / nam$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lâm / nâm
*** Sinological IPA : /lam⁵⁵/, /nam⁵⁵/
* 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 | naam$^4$ |
* 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

(Jinmeiyō kanji)
* camphor tree

#### Readings

* Go-on: なん (nan)
* Kan-on: だん (dan)
* 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

* Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

## Vietnamese
### Han character

楠: Hán Nôm readings: nêm, nam
* chữ Hán form of nêm (“(to) wedge, to pack”).