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
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.
The Arctic is the area around the North Pole.
We credit Peary with having discovered the North Pole.
A few months later they return to their breeding grounds in the Arctic.