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以南

yǐnán

to the south of (suffix)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to the south of (suffix)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 以南 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 以南 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

马里是在撒哈拉以南非洲最贫穷的国家之一。mǎ lǐ shì zài sā hā lā yǐ nán fēi zhōu zuì pín qióng de guó jiā zhī yī。

Mali is one of the poorest countries in Subsaharan Africa.

1910 年至 1980 年间,世界大部分地区都在变暖,而赤道以南安第斯山脉附近的一些地区实际上却在变冷,之后直到 20 世纪 90 年代中期才发生了变化。1910 nián zhì 1980 nián jiān, shì jiè dà bù fèn dì qū dōu zài biàn nuǎn, ér chì dào yǐ nán ān dì sī shān mài fù jìn de yī xiē dì qū shí jì shàng què zài biàn lěng, zhī hòu zhí dào 20 shì jì 90 nián dài zhōng qī cái fā shēng le biàn huà。

As most of the world was warming up between 1910 and 1980, some areas south of the equator near the Andes were actually cooling down, and then afterwards had no change at all until the middle 1990s.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 以南.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 以南.

Directly before

  • 撒哈拉以南1
  • 赤道以南1

Directly after

  • 以南非洲1
  • 以南安第斯山脉1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 以南

What does 以南 mean in Chinese?

以南 (yǐnán) means to the south of (suffix).

How do you pronounce 以南?

以南 is pronounced yǐnán.

Is 以南 an HSK word?

以南 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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