Chinese symbol for “northwest”
西北
xī běi
northwest
The closest CC-CEDICT match for northwest is 西北 (xī běi), defined as: northwest.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “northwest”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 西北.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 东西 (東西) | dōng xī | east and west |
| 西部 | xī bù | western part |
| 西南 | xī nán | southwest |
| 法西斯 | fǎ xī sī | fascist (loanword) |
| 东北 (東北) | dōng běi | northeast |
| 北部 | běi bù | northern part |
| 北方 | běi fāng | north; the northern part a country |
| 南北 | nán běi | north and south; north to south |
See also: Japanese symbol for “northwest”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.