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sơn nam

Pronunciation Northern /səːn˧˧ naːm˧˧/ Central /ʂəːŋ˧˥ naːm˧˥/ Southern /ʂəːŋ˧˧ naːm˧˧/
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ancient administrative unit in Vietnam
Proper noun
ancient administrative unit in Vietnam

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Meaning
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Sense 1 Proper noun
ancient administrative unit in Vietnam

An administrative unit south of the ancient Thăng Long citadel, equivalent to land in present-day Hà Nam Ninh and Thái Bình provinces and parts of Hà Nội, Hà Sơn Bình, and Hải Phòng, classified as an inner region (nội trấn).

vi Sơn Nam là tên của một địa danh.

en Sơn Nam is the name of a place.

Parts
sơn / nam / 山南
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Components

Components

sơn nam
Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
山南
Candidates by syllable
sơn 山 nam 南
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
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xuân sơn nam / lam sơn / sơn tây / đông sơn …
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Words containing this
sơn (Wax tree) — words using
nam (south) — words using
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