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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

남쪽

Pronunciation / Transliteration: namjjok

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
South/saʊθ/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"태양은 동쪽에서 떠서 서쪽에서 지고, 남쪽은 북쪽과 정반대입니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The direction toward the point of the horizon 90 degrees clockwise from east.

    "The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, while the south is directly opposite the north."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Situated in or facing toward the south.

    "They traveled to the southern part of the country for their vacation."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'sūþ', of Germanic origin, related to Dutch 'zuid' and German 'Süd'. Originally denoting the direction of the sun at midday, it evolved to describe geographical regions located in the southern hemisphere or southern sector of a country.

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