IDENTITY
北běinorth
HSK 1Top 280
CORE MEANING
north
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.northHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 匕spoon radical (bǐ)
- strokes
- 5
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰③匕
- the two turning backs
USAGE
Common words
北边běibiannorth side
北方běifāngthe North
北京BěijīngBeijing
Graded examples
北京的冬天很冷。Běijīng de dōngtiān hěn lěng.HSK2
Beijing winters are very cold.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Two people sitting back to back — turned away, hence north. (Old: backs.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #280
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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