Chinese symbol for “southwest”
西南
xī nán
southwest
The closest CC-CEDICT match for southwest is 西南 (xī nán), defined as: southwest.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 西南.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 东西 (東西) | dōng xī | east and west |
| 西部 | xī bù | western part |
| 西北 | xī běi | northwest |
| 法西斯 | fǎ xī sī | fascist (loanword) |
| 南部 | nán bù | southern part |
| 南方 | nán fāng | south; southern direction; (in China) southern regions, often referring to areas south of the Yangtze River |
| 南北 | nán běi | north and south; north to south |
| 东南 (東南) | dōng nán | southeast |
See also: Japanese symbol for “southwest”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.