北 hanja, meaning north, read 북 (buk)
Reading
Also read 배 (bae)
north; northern; northward
북녘 북bungnyeok buk
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 북녘 (bungnyeok) is the Korean for north, and 북 (buk) is the reading. Say 북녘 북 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- ⼔ 21
- Beyond radical
- 3
- Mandarin
- běi
- Japanese on
- hoku
- Japanese kun
- kita
Vocabulary
Words that use 北
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
northward
Character by character north + a square
Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.