Chinese symbol for “yankee”
北方佬
běi fāng lǎo
northerner; guy from the north; Yankee
The closest CC-CEDICT match for yankee is 北方佬 (běi fāng lǎo), defined as: northerner; guy from the north; Yankee.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 北方佬.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 东北 (東北) | dōng běi | northeast |
| 北部 | běi bù | northern part |
| 北方 | běi fāng | north; the northern part a country |
| 西北 | xī běi | northwest |
| 南北 | nán běi | north and south; north to south |
| 以北 | yǐ běi | to the north of (suffix) |
| 地方 | dì fāng | region; regional (away from the central administration) |
| 方式 | fāng shì | way; method; manner; mode; pattern (of behavior etc); 种 (zhǒng) |
| 大佬 | dà lǎo | big shot (leading some field or group); godfather (in an organization) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “yankee”.
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.