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北方

běi fāng 3–1

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

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 2.0 level 3 · HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
北 · 方
Syllables
2
běi fāng
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 4,879

Part of speech: s,f

Character by character

  • 北běi5 strokesHSK 1north; northern; northward
  • 方fāng4 strokesHSK 1a square, rectangle; a region; local

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 北方. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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