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Kanji Reference:Hoku

Table of contents
1 The Kanji
2 Stroke Order
3 On Readings
4 Kun Readings (hiragana suffix in brackets)
5 Meaning(s)
6 See also

The Kanji

北

Unicode character number - hex 5317/decimal 21271

Stroke Order

  1. The small horizontal stroke on the left-hand side is done, from left to right.
  2. The left-most vertical stroke is done, from top to bottom.
  3. The diagonal stroke at the bottom-left is done, from top-right to bottom-left.
  4. The remaining vertical stroke that curves to the right is done, from top-left to bottom-right.
  5. The remaining diagonal stroke is done, from bottom-left to top-right.

On Readings

hoku

Kun Readings (hiragana suffix in brackets)

kita

Meaning(s)

Japanese English
hoku, kita north

See also