中南

Zhōngnán

proper noun

Meanings

1 South Central China, the region of Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan
2 China and South Africa

HSK 5

湖南和湖北都属于中南地区。

Húnán hé Húběi dōu shǔyú Zhōngnán dìqū.

Hunan and Hubei both belong to the South Central region.

HSK 5

中南两国在金砖国家合作中关系密切。

Zhōngnán liǎng guó zài Jīnzhuān Guójiā hézuò zhōng guānxi mìqiè.

China and South Africa work closely together within BRICS.

mistakes

Not 中南海, the leadership compound in Beijing. 中南半岛, 'the peninsula south of China', is Indochina.

usage

The region name lives on in universities such as 中南大学 in Changsha and 中南财经政法大学 in Wuhan.

中 zhōng

南 nán