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Etymology
🇰🇲, . In Chinese philosophy, south is a favorable "yang" direction, as opposed to north which is a "yin" direction. Compare, and , and certain ways to position things in fengshui to conform to the south-first-north-second orientation. Compare the meanings of the Latin auto-antonym which is either "auspicious" if one is facing south and east is to their left per Roman tradition, or "inauspicious" if one is facing north and west is to their left per Greek tradition.

Noun

 * 1)  the magnetic needle of a compass
 * 2)  a