ほっきょく
Meanings
Noun
1. North Pole
2. the Arctic
Pitch accent
っきょく
Used in vocabulary (13 in total)
Polaris (star in the constellation Ursa Minor); Alpha Ursae Minoris; the North Star
Arctic Circle; the Arctic
Arctic region; north polar region
Arctic expedition
Arctic air mass
Arctic Circle (latitude)
bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus); Greenland right whale
Arctic oscillation
Arctic hare (Lepus arcticus)
Arctic wolf (Canis lupus arctos)
arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus)
Examples (6 in total)
Santa Claus lives in the North Pole.
The North Star is very easy to find.
The South Pole is a lot colder than the North Pole.