Illustration: At a fork on a Japanese hillside trail, a hiker holds an open compass level in one palm. Its unlettered face has four long cardinal ticks, a clearly distinguished north-seeking needle pointing straight ahead, and a bearing pointer set halfway toward the right-hand cardinal tick.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

北ほく東とう

hokutou

northeast

Example sentences

  1. 北東ほくとう方向ほうこうに土地とちが低ひくく横よこたわっていた。

    The land to the northeast was low-lying.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 当初とうしょは般若寺はんにゃじの北東ほくとうに造つくられた。

    Initially, it was built in the northeast of Hannya-ji Temple.

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

  3. 西日本旅客鉄道奈良線桃山駅下車にしにほんりょかくてつどうならせんももやまえきげしゃ、北東ほくとうへ徒歩約とほやく1km。

    Take the Nara Line of JR West: Get off at Momoyama Station and walk for approx. 1 km to the north-east.

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

Kanji in 北東

  • 北northOnホクKunきた
  • 東eastOnトウKunひがし

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