Nam Việt or Nanyue (Chinese: 南越; pinyin: nányuè) was an ancient kingdom that consisted much of modern northern Vietnam and the Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi. It was established by the Chinese general Zhao Tuo (Ch:趙佗, Triệu Đà in Vietnamese) who adopted the customs of the Vietnamese people that he absorbed in his territorry. Its capital was near modern-day Guangzhou (Canton). Jump to: navigation, search Pinyin (Chinese: 拼音, pÄ«nyÄ«n) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to HànyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to... Guangdong (Simplified Chinese: 广东; Traditional Chinese: 廣東; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kuang-tung; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangtung or Canton Province, Jyutping: gwong2 dung1; Vietnamese: Quảng Đông), is a province on the south coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Jump to: navigation, search Guangxi (Zhuang: Gvangjsih or (old orthography) ; Simplified Chinese: 广西; Traditional Chinese: 廣西; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kuang-hsi; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangsi) is an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Zhao Tuo (Trad. ... The Vietnamese people (Vietnamese: người Việt or người Kinh) are an ethnic group originating from what is now northern Vietnam and southern China. ... Location within China Guangzhou (Simplified Chinese: 广州; Traditional Chinese: 廣州; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kuang-chou; Jyutping: Gwong2zau1; Yale: GwóngjaÅ«) is the capital of the Guangdong Province in southern China. ...

Among the Vietnamese, the Triệu Dynasty was a controversial one. Many consider it a period of Chinese domination since it was ruled by a Chinese general, while others consider it a period of independence because he adopted Vietnamese customs and often ruled in defiance of the Han emperor. Jump to: navigation, search Han commanderies and kingdoms AD 2. ...

南 (nán, nam) means "south", and 越 (yuè, việt) is a variant of 粤 (yuè), the Chinese term that covers the languages and ethnicities of the southern Chinese province of Guangdong and surrounding areas. 南越 can therefore be thought of as roughly meaning "southern Cantonese." Guangdong (Simplified Chinese: 广东; Traditional Chinese: 廣東; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kuang-tung; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangtung or Canton Province, Jyutping: gwong2 dung1; Vietnamese: Quảng Đông), is a province on the south coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ...

After the Han Chinese controlled the Nan-Yue kingdom for nearly 1000 years, the Yue's land has come to shape what is now northern Vietnam. Areas of present-day Guangdong and Guangxi were completly sinicized, while the Kinh (Jing) people of the Yue form the majority of the modern-day ethnic group of Vietnam. Sinicization, or less commonly Sinification, is to make things Chinese. ... The Vietnamese people (Vietnamese: người Việt or người Kinh) are an ethnic group originating from what is now northern Vietnam and southern China. ... Yue (pinyin: Yuè, Wade-Giles: Yüeh, also Yuet, Viet) refers to ancient non-Han Chinese peoples of southern China and northern Vietnam, especially those along the coastline. ...

In 111 BC, the army of emperor Han Wudi defeated Zhao Tuo's successor and incorporated Nam Việt into the Han empire. Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC - 110s BC - 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC Years: 116 BC 115 BC 114 BC 113 BC 112 BC - 111 BC - 110 BC 109 BC... Emperor Wu of Han (156 BC*–March 29, 87 BC), personal name Liu Che, was the sixth emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty, ruling from 141 BC to 87 BC. A military compaigner, Han China reached its greatest expansion under his reign, spanning from Kyrgyzstan in the west, Northern Korea...

The modern name "Vietnam" (Việt Nam) is just 南越 (Nam Việt) with an adapted word order.

External links

• Wiktionary, the free dictionary, has entries on all these Chinese characters: 南, 越, 粤