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北
Meaning
- north
- (classical) to be defeated
Example sentence
一直往北走。
Keep walking north.
The character 北
北 draws two people standing back to back, and a Chinese house has its back to the north. 北边, 北方 and 北京, the northern capital, all take it, and it pairs into 东北 and 西北.