Meanings

northern region

Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana)

Northern Cross (asterism)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

north round

Taipei (Taiwan)

pung (or kong) of north tiles when north is both the round wind and one's seat wind (meld)

north player

north central region

northern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii)

Northern Limit Line

arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus)

northern Japan (usu. referring to Tōhoku and Hokkaido)

magnetic north

Hokkai shrimp (Pandalus latirostris)

Hokkaido dialect

Hokkaido dialect

flowing north (e.g. of a river)

north of a lake

Northeast Asia