běi

北

north

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出行与方位Lesson 6 · Transport & Places 天气怎么样Lesson 20 · What's the Weather Like? 去旅游Lesson 24 · Travelling 在学校HSK 3.0 · Lesson 7 · At School 在哪儿HSK 3.0 · Lesson 8 · Where Is It? vocab 怎么去HSK 3.0 · Lesson 9 · How Do I Get There? vocab 天气HSK 3.0 · Lesson 13 · The Weather 放假了HSK 3.0 · Lesson 19 · Holidays Are Here 去过中国吗HSK 3.0 · Lesson 20 · Have You Been to China?

Words with 北

北京 Běi jīng Beijing, capital of the People's Republic of China HSK 1
北边 běi biān north; north side HSK 1
北方 běi fāng north; the northern part a country HSK 2
东北 Dōng běi Northeast China; Manchuria HSK 2
西北 Xī běi Northwest China (Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang) HSK 2
北部 běi bù northern part HSK 3
南北 nán běi north and south; north to south HSK 5
北极 běi jí the North Pole; the Arctic Pole; the north magnetic pole HSK 5

Examples from your lessons

  • 从北京到上海坐飞机。 Go from Beijing to Shanghai by airplane. Lesson 6
  • 我觉得北京的冬天很冷。 I think Beijing's winter is very cold. Lesson 20
  • 你去过北京吗？ Have you been to Beijing? Lesson 24
  • 北京怎么样？ How is Beijing? Lesson 24
  • 我在北京的一个中学上学。 I go to a middle school in Beijing. Lesson 107
  • 从我家到北京，坐飞机要两个小时。 From my home to Beijing takes two hours by plane. Lesson 109

Character facts

Radical
匕 spoon, ladle; knife, dirk
Structure
Left–right
Unicode
U+5317

Pictographic: Two people 匕 sitting back-to-back; phonetic loan for "north"

Same radical 匕
huà 化
Same sound
bēi 杯 bèi 背 bèi 被 bèi 倍 bèi 辈 bēi 碑
Also HSK 1
de 的 le 了 wǒ 我 shì 是 nǐ 你 zài 在 bù 不 yǒu 有