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 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.