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西北

xī běi

2-character word

What 西北 means

1. northwest

Other readings

西北 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Xī běiNorthwest China (Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang)

The characters in 西北

• 西xīwest
• 北běinorth; (classical) to be defeated

Example sentences

• 他们向西北方向进军，进入了谢南多厄河谷。
  They marched northwest into the Shenandoah Valley.
• “这是阿拉伯文吗？”“不是，这是维吾尔文，一种中国西北部的语言。”
  “ zhè shì ālābówén ma?”“ bù shì, zhè shì Wéiwú'ěr wén, yīzhǒng Zhōngguó Xīběibù de yǔyán.”
  Is this Arabic ? - No, this is Uighuric, a language spoken in North-West China.
• 「这是阿拉伯文吗？」「不是，这是维吾尔文，一种中国西北部的语言。」
  "Is this Arabic?" "No, it's Uyghur - a language that's spoken in northwestern China."

Words starting with 西北

• 西北部Xī běi bùnorthwest part
• 西北方xī běi fāngnorthwest; northwestern
• 西北大学Xī běi Dà xuéNorthwest University
• 西北工业大学Xī běi Gōng yè Dà xuéNorthwestern Polytechnical University
• 西北航空公司Xī běi Háng kōng Gōng sīNorthwest Airlines
• 西北雨xī běi yǔthundershower (Tw)
• 西北农林科技大学Xī běi Nóng lín Kē jì Dà xuéNorthwest A&F University

Words containing 西北

• 东南西北dōng nán xī běieast, south, west and north; all directions
• 喝西北风hē xī běi fēng(lit.) to drink the northwest wind (idiom); (fig.) to go hungry; to have nothing to eat
• 东南西北中dōng nán xī běi zhōngthe five directions 五方 east, south, west, north and middle