Kanji1 / 5
北 kanji
north
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ホク
Kun readings
きた
Words with 北
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —北面north face; north side; the north; facing north
- —北洋northern waters
- —北嶺Mount Hiei; Enryaku-ji (Tendai monastery located on Mount Hiei)
- —北限northern limit (esp. of the distribution of a plant or animal)
- —北爆bombing North (Vietnam)
- —北壁north wall; north face (of a mountain)
- —羅北compass north
- —脱北fleeing from North Korea
- —北狄Northern Di people (Zhou dynasty term for non-ethnic Chinese to the north); northern barbarians
- —北魏Northern Wei dynasty (of China; 386-535)
- —北宋Northern Song dynasty (of China; 960-1127)
- —最北northernmost
- —北斗the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow
- —北斉Northern Qi dynasty (of China; 550-577); Northern Ch'i dynasty
- —北堂northern pavilion of a house; mother
- —台北Taipei (Taiwan)
- —磁北magnetic north
- —北流flowing north (e.g. of a river)
- —北韓North Korea
- —湖北north of a lake; north of Lake Biwa