北

Kana: きた

north; the North

Example sentence

北の冬はとても寒いです。

きたのふゆはとてもさむいです。

Winters in the north are very cold.

What 北 means

北 (きた) is a Japanese word meaning “north; the North”. It appears in the Level 1 collection, under Places & Travel.

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