The kanji 北: meaning, readings and stroke order

北

Meaning: north
On reading: ホク hoku
Kun reading: きた kita
Strokes: 5
Radical: 匕 spoon
Level: Level 2 · grade 2

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: phía bắc (bắc)
Japanese: きた。
Korean: 북쪽 (배·북)
Chinese: 北方

Readings, words and example sentences

ホク hoku · on reading

東とう北ほく
Tohoku (northeast Japan)
東とう北ほくは雪が多いです。
The Tohoku region gets a lot of snow.

きた kita · kun reading

北きた
north
北きたの風がつめたいです。
The north wind is cold.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.