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北边
Meaning
- north
- north side
- northern part
Example sentence
学校在城市的北边。
The school is on the north side of the city.
Characters in 北边
北 north plus 边, a side or edge. 边 builds the whole set: 东边, 南边, 西边, 上边, 下边, 里边, 外边 — learn the suffix once and you have a dozen words.