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北

Level III of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 362 / 2,608

North

On’yomi
ほく
Kun’yomi
きた
Radical
匕 Spoon (Kangxi 21)
School grade
2
Strokes
5

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 医 (Medicine), less common than 例 (Example).

The character 北 (north) looks like two people sitting back to back, turning away from each other — fleeing from the cold north wind.

In words

北 きた northN5
北極 ほっきょく North PoleN2
南北 なんぼく south and northN2

北 is rank 362 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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