北京

Character by character

• 北běi5 strokesHSK 1north; northern; northward
• 京jīng8 strokesHSK 1capital city

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 北京. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 北běiHSK 1

  north; (classical) to be defeated

• 北方běi fāngHSK 2

  north; the northern part a country; China north of the Yellow River

• 北部běi bùHSK 3

  northern part

• 东北dōng běiHSK 2

  northeast

• 西北xī běiHSK 2

  northwest

• 南北nán běiHSK 5

  north and south; north to south

• 北极běi jíHSK 5

  the North Pole; the Arctic Pole; the north magnetic pole

• 北边běi biānHSK 1

  north; north side; northern part; to the north of

• 京剧jīng jùHSK 3

  Beijing opera