Illustration: On a northbound train in Japan, a passenger traces their progress along a paper map from central Honshu toward Tohoku and Hokkaido. The recognizable islands fill the map, and a small compass resting on it has its north-seeking needle aligned with that direction.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

北ほく上じょう

hokujou

to move north

Example sentences

  1. かつては、九州きゅうしゅうから北東方向ほくとうほうこうにほぼ順じゅんに桜前線さくらぜんせんが北上ほくじょうしていた。

    Cherry Blossom Front used to move northward from Kyushu toward northeast approximately in ascending order of latitude values of locations.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 冬ふゆが終おわり春はるが近ちかづくにつれ、シベリア気団きだんは勢力せいりょくが弱よわくなり、次第しだいに北上ほくじょうしていく。

    If the winter ends and the spring comes closer, Siberia air mass loses its strength and moves up to the north.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 上総かずさ・千葉両氏ちばりょうしの支持しじを受うけた頼朝よりともは房総半島ぼうそうはんとうを北上ほくじょうする。

    Yoritomo gained support from both the Kazusa and Chiba clans, and went up north in the Boso Peninsula.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 北上

  • 北northOnホクKunきた
  • 上above; upOnジョウ・ショウ・シャンKunうえ・うわ-・かみ

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