北
北 — buk, bae
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 북녘 북, 달아날 배
- Romanization
- buk, bae
- English
- north; northern; northward
- Mandarin
- běi
- Japanese on'yomi
- ホク, ハイ, ヘ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- きた
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #153 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 匕 (21, 3 residual)
- Unicode
- U+5317
Korean example words with 北
- 북편北便 Korean gloss: 북쪽 편
- 북단北端 Korean gloss: 북쪽의 끝
- 북방北方 Korean gloss: 북쪽 지방
- 북어北魚 Korean gloss: 말린 명태
- 삭북朔北 Korean gloss: 북쪽 지방
- 극북極北 Korean gloss: 북쪽의 맨 끝
- 북록北麓 Korean gloss: 산의 북쪽 기슭
- 북창北窓 Korean gloss: 북쪽으로 난 창
- 북국北國 Korean gloss: 북쪽에 있는 나라
- 북로北路 Korean gloss: 북쪽으로 가는 길
- 북벽北壁 Korean gloss: 임금이 앉는 자리
- 재북在北 Korean gloss: 북한에 살고 있음
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 北
- 北きた north; the North; northern territories
- 北京ペキン Beijing (China); Peking
- 北海道ほっかいどう Hokkaido (island, prefectural-level administrative unit)
- 北朝鮮きたちょうせん North Korea
- 南北なんぼく north and south; north to south; South Korea and North Korea
- 東北とうほく north-east; Tōhoku (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu); Tohoku
- 北方ほっぽう the north; northward; northern direction
- 北部ほくぶ northern part; the north (of a region)
- 北東ほくとう northeast
- 敗北はいぼく defeat; loss; reverse
- 北陸ほくりく Hokuriku region (of Honshu; incl. Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui prefectures)
- 北側きたがわ north side; north bank
Characters sharing the phonetic 北
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “북”
Other hanja with radical 匕
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences