男 (pinyin: nán, written "nan" or "nan") means man, boy; male; baron; surname. Below: its meaning, pronunciation, stroke order, and example sentences, so you can learn how to read, say, and write 男.
Meaning
man, boy; male; baron; surname
Stroke order
男
Examples
从前,有一个小男孩在山上放羊。每天他都觉得很无聊,所以一天他想了一个办法来让自己开心。
cóng qián, yǒu yí ge xiǎo nán hái zài shān shang fàng yáng. měi tiān tā dōu jué de hěn wú liáo, suǒ yǐ yì tiān tā xiǎng le yí ge bàn fǎ lái ràng zì jǐ kāi xīn.
Long ago, there was a small boy who tended sheep on a mountain. Every day he felt bored, so one day he thought of a way to amuse himself.
èr shí fēn zhōng hòu, yí ge xiǎo nán hái zài lìng yì jiā diàn mén kǒu zhǎo dào le wǒ de qián bāo, dōng xi quán dōu zài. wǒ xiàng nà wèi lǎo bǎn dào xiè, tā zhǐ shì xiào xiao shuō: chū mén zài wài, dà jiā hù xiāng zhào gù.
Twenty minutes later, a little boy found my wallet at the entrance of another shop. Everything was still in it. I thanked the vendor, but he just smiled and said: when you're away from home, we all look out for each other.
tā dà shēng hǎn: "láng lái le! láng lái le!" shān xià de nóng mín men tīng dào hòu, mǎ shàng pǎo shàng shān lái bāng tā. kě shì dāng tā men dào le shān shang, fā xiàn gēn běn méi yǒu láng. nán hái kàn zhe tā men huāng zhāng de yàng zi, xiào de hé bù lǒng zuǐ.
He shouted loudly: "The wolf is coming! The wolf is coming!" The farmers below heard him and immediately ran up the mountain to help. But when they got there, they found there was no wolf at all. The boy watched their panicked faces and laughed until he couldn't close his mouth.
jǐ tiān hòu, nán hái yòu hǎn "láng lái le", nóng mín men yòu shàng shān lái, yòu fā xiàn bèi piàn le. zhè yàng de shì qing fā shēng le hǎo jǐ cì. zhōng yú yǒu yì tiān, zhēn de lái le yì zhī láng. nán hái pīn mìng de hǎn jiào, dàn shì zhè cì méi yǒu rén lái. zuì hòu, tā shī qù le suǒ yǒu de yáng.
A few days later, the boy again shouted "The wolf is coming", and the farmers again came up the mountain, and again discovered they had been tricked. This sort of thing happened many times. Finally, one day, a wolf really did come. The boy shouted desperately, but this time no one came. In the end, he lost all of his sheep.