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
- —冬北斗the Big Dipper seen on a winter night
- —北極狼Arctic wolf (Canis lupus arctos)
- —北極鱈Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida); polar cod
- —中北部north central region
- —南東北southern Tohoku (usually Miyagi, Yamagata and Fukushima prefectures)
- —北東北northern Tohoku (usually Aomori, Iwate and Akita prefectures)
- —河北省Hebei Province (China)
- —湖北省Hubei Province (China)
- —北磁極north magnetic pole
- —北陸道Hokurikudō; one of the seven districts of ancient Japan; Hokurikudō; highway running through the Hokuriku region
- —北東部northeastern part; the northeast
- —北西部northwestern part; the northwest
- —北方話Northern Chinese; Mandarin
- —東北大Tōhoku University (abbr)
- —東西南北east, west, south and north
- —南征北伐attacking in all directions
- —南船北馬constant travelling; constant traveling; being on the move; restless wandering
- —南北戦争American Civil War (1861-1865)
- —北欧諸国Nordic countries; Scandinavian countries
- —北支事変Marco Polo Bridge Incident (1937)