西北

Character by character

• 西xī6 strokesHSK 1west(ern); westward; occident; Kangxi radical 146
• 北běi5 strokesHSK 1north; northern; northward

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 西北. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 东西dōng xiHSK 1

  thing; stuff; person

• 西xīHSK 1

  west

• 北běiHSK 1

  north; (classical) to be defeated

• 西部xī bùHSK 3

  western part

• 西方xī fāngHSK 2

  the West; the Occident; Western countries

• 北京běi jīngHSK 1

  Beijing, capital of the People's Republic of China

• 北方běi fāngHSK 2

  north; the northern part a country; China north of the Yellow River

• 北部běi bùHSK 3

  northern part

• 东北dōng běiHSK 2

  northeast

• 西装xī zhuāngHSK 5

  suit; Western-style clothes

• 西南xī nánHSK 2

  southwest

• 西瓜xī guāHSK 4

  watermelon

• 西红柿xī hóng shìHSK 5

  tomato

• 南北nán běiHSK 5

  north and south; north to south

• 北极běi jíHSK 5

  the North Pole; the Arctic Pole; the north magnetic pole

• 西边xī biānHSK 1

  west; west side; western part; to the west of

• 西班牙语xī bān yá yǔHSK 6

  Spanish language

• 北边běi biānHSK 1

  north; north side; northern part; to the north of

• 西医xī yīHSK 2

  Western medicine; a doctor trained in Western medicine

• 西餐xī cānHSK 2

  Western-style food

• 东张西望dōng zhāng xī wàngHSK 7

  to look in all directions (idiom); to glance around

• 东奔西走dōng bēn xī zǒuHSK 7

  to run this way and that (idiom); to rush about busily; to bustle about; to hopscotch; also 东跑西颠