北

HSK 3#1835 by frequencyradical 匕

běi["f"]

north; (classical) to be defeated

Examples

我要去爬北岳。

I'm going to climb Mt. Kitadake.

我现在在北京。

I am in Beijing right now.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.