Character Details
| north | Ascii: 35199 | w151 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 北 | běi | bay | 3 | 匕 (spoon) + 匕 (spoon) → north | 北 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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The physician puts the cardboard box on his head and throws a dart at a chart to determine his patients' illnesses. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - How was the weather in Beijing yesterday? | - North-eastern China | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 4 - 匕 | bǐ | spoon | spoon | spoon shape | 比 北 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 匕 (spoon) + 匕 (spoon) → north | 匕 (semantic origin) | 匕 (phonetic) | originally two people back‑to‑back | ||||||||