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北

JLPT N5 SL2 5 strokes Frequency: #153

Meanings

North

Radicals

匕

Decomposition

⿰？匕

Etymology

Pictographic: Two people 匕 sitting back-to-back; phonetic loan for "north"

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 5

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-to-top

2 vertical top-right-to-bottom-left

3 rising left-to-right

4 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

5 curve right-to-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ホク hoku

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

きた kita

Words Using This Kanji

318 words total

Other (20 words)

北欧人ほくおうじん

Nordic person

北海道開発庁長官ほっかいどうかいはつちょうちょうかん

Director General of Hokkaido Development Agency

北京語ペキンご

Beijing dialect (of Mandarin)

Arctic Circle

north entrance

northerner

going north

North Korea

Northern Court (of Japan; 1336-1392)

northern half

American Indian

northern direction

Northern Europe

northern sea

northerly (wind)

Arctic Ocean

Arctic Ocean

going north

Marco Polo Bridge Incident (1937)

華北かほく

North China

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