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西北

běi

HSK 2 · word 1058 of 3,000

Meaning

Example sentence

他们向西北方向进军,进入了谢南多厄河谷。

tā men xiàng xī běi fāng xiàng jìn jūn jìn rù le xiè nán duō è hé gǔ

They marched northwest into the Shenandoah Valley.

Characters in 西北

西 west plus north, giving north-west. The east-or-west character comes first, which is the opposite of the English order.

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