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
- —北極熊polar bear (Ursus maritimus)
- —北極光northern lights; aurora borealis
- —北極星Polaris (star in the constellation Ursa Minor); Alpha Ursae Minoris; the North Star
- —北極洋Arctic Ocean
- —北国人northerner
- —北斗星the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow
- —北氷洋Arctic Ocean
- —北北西north-northwest
- —最北端northernmost tip (point, extremity, etc.)
- —東北東east-northeast; ENE
- —脱北者person who has fled from North Korea; North Korean defector
- —東北弁Tōhoku dialect; Tohoku dialect
- —新北区Nearctic (region)
- —全北区Holarctic (region)
- —旧北区Palearctic (region); Palaearctic
- —北極点(geographic) North Pole
- —北極線Arctic Circle (latitude)
- —北極鯨bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus); Greenland right whale
- —北極狐Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus)
- —敗北者loser; the defeated