北 (běi)
north
How 北 is written
- Strokes
- 5
- Traditional
- 北
- Simplified
- 北 (unchanged)
Common words using 北
- 北京 běijīng
- Beijing, capital of People's Republic of China; Peking; PRC government
- 北京人 běijīngrén
- Beijing resident; Peking ape-man, Homo erectus pekinensis (c. 600,000 BC), discovered in 1921 at Zhoukoudian 周口店[Zhou1 kou3 dian4], Beijing
- 北京市 běijīngshì
- Beijing; capital of People's Republic of China; one of the four municipalities 直轄市|直辖市[zhi2 xia2 shi4]
- 北國 běiguó
- the northern part of the country; the North
- 北大 běidà
- Beijing University (abbr. for 北京大學|北京大学)
- 北平 běipíng
- Peiping or Beiping (name of Beijing at different periods, esp. 1928-1949)
- 北愛 běiài
- abbr. for 北愛爾蘭|北爱尔兰[Bei3 Ai4 er3 lan2], Northern Ireland
- 北斗 běidǒu
- Great Bear; Big Dipper; Peitou town in Changhua county 彰化縣|彰化县[Zhang1 hua4 xian4], Taiwan
- 北方 běifāng
- north; the northern part a country; China north of the Yellow River
- 北極 běijí
- the North Pole; the Arctic Pole; the north magnetic pole
- 北極熊 běijíxióng
- polar bear
- 北歐 běiōu
- north Europe; Scandinavia
北 in a sentence
台北在台灣的北部。
Táiběi zài Táiwān de běibù.
“Taipei is in the northern part of Taiwan.”
How common is 北?
北 is the 315th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 65.7% of all running text.
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