Chinese symbol for “northwestern”
西北方
xī běi fāng
northwest; northwestern
The closest CC-CEDICT match for northwestern is 西北方 (xī běi fāng), defined as: northwest; northwestern.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 西北方.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 东西 (東西) | dōng xī | east and west |
| 西部 | xī bù | western part |
| 西北 | xī běi | northwest |
| 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 |
| 地方 | dì fāng | region; regional (away from the central administration) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “northwestern”.
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.