きた
Meanings
Noun
1. north
2. the North; northern territories
3. North Korea
4. north wind
Kanji used
north
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (51 in total)
① 北の方角。
① 北と東の中間の方位。
north wind; northerly wind
northern hill
northward; facing the north; nobleman's true wife
① 北と西の中間の方位。
North America
① 天体を赤道で二分した半球のうち、北側に相当する部分。
facing north; northern exposure
due north
northerly (wind); from the north
northern Japan (usu. referring to Tōhoku and Hokkaido)
northern Japan (usu. referring to Tōhoku and Hokkaido)
northern route
Northern Europe
① 北西ヨーロッパ、アイルランド島の北東6県(county)のことであり、現在、連合王国(イギリス)を構成している。北部アイルランドとも言う。
lying with one's head to the north (trad. position for dead bodies; taboo for sleeping); brown-lined puffer (species of pufferfish, Canthigaster rivulata)
northern Tohoku (usually Aomori, Iwate and Akita prefectures)
northern route
legal wife of a regent, of the imperial adviser, or of an official at the Grand Council of State
era at the turn of 1960s into 70s dominated by grand champions Kitanofuji and Tamanoumi
Ezo red fox (Vulpes vulpes schrencki)
cold wind from the northern uplands
North Pacific high; North Pacific anticyclone
northern side house (to the rear of a main residence; often home to one's wife)
facing the north
Northern Cross (asterism)
North Macedonia
Northern Cyprus (de facto state)
① ネズミ目リス科リス属に属する齧歯類の一種。学名:Sciurus vulgaris。
northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris)
northern pika (Ochotona hyperborea)
Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana); North American opossum; tlacuache
Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus)
Kitahama Station (Osaka)
Examples (14 in total)
The bus was heading north.
There was a cold wind blowing from the north.
The road goes north from here.