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Nan-jih

Nan-jih is the alternative form of Nanri.

Meaning of Nanri

Proper noun

Nanri

  1. A town in Xiuyu district, Putian, Fujian, China.
    • A U.S. warship twice intruded into China's territorial waters south of Tsungwu and Nanjih Island in Fukien Province between 1733 and 2110 hours yesterday and between 2309 hours yesterday and 0431 hours today.[1964 October 16 [1964 October 15], “Foreign Ministry Issues 330th Serious Warning”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 203, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking...

Origin of Nan-jih

From Mandarin 南日 (Nánrì) cf. Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-jih⁴.

Questions about Nan-jih

What is Nan-jih the alternative form of?
Nan-jih is the alternative form of Nanri.

Words near Nan-jih in the dictionary

  1. Nan-ch'ang
  2. Nan-ch'uan
  3. Nan-ch'ung
  4. Nan-ching
  5. Nan-hai
  6. Nan-jih
  7. Nan-ning
  8. Nan-sha
  9. Nan-t'ou
  10. Nan-t'ung
  11. Nan-yang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Nan-jih (page history and authors); Nanri (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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