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The Chinese word "虞世南" is formed as a personal name consisting of the surname 虞 followed by the given name 世南, which is itself a compound of the characters 世 (meaning "generation" or "world") and 南 (meaning "south"), assembled in that order without additional morphological or syntactic changes.

Word Definition - 虞世南

yú shì nán Yu Shinan (558-638), politician of Sui and early Tang periods, poet and calligrapher, one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家[táng chū sì dà jiā]