(chiefly in compounds, due to possible ambiguity) America (one of the continents of North America or South America) / America, United States of America (a country in North America)

花独活: Heracleum sphondylium var. nipponicum

北極熊: a polar bear

(historical) the red-light district in modern-day Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo (as it was located south of Edo Castle)

(historical, archaic) the red-light district in modern-day Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo

a female given name / a surname

(mahjong) south wind (mahjong tile)

the south / Short for 南鐐 (nanryō): beautiful silver; a type of silver coin in the Edo period

(archaic) to go south

south, southern / Used in Sanskrit transliterations