Does anyone know why there is a character that is common to both the Koreans and the Vietnamese?
Are there any other examples of these kind of similarity?
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Sign up to join this communityNán (南) is "south" in Chinese.
Addendum: the Middle Chinese form assumed by Sagert & Baxter is nom. The reconstructions from their book are available here.