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

(きた) is a Japanese word meaning “north; the North”. It belongs to the Places & Travel topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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