Illustration: In a Japanese school science room, two children stand on opposite sides of a large globe tilted in its support. One points to the Arctic end of the Earth's axis while the other crouches to point to the Antarctic end.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

南なん北ぼく

nanboku

north and south

Example sentences

  1. 日本にっぽんは南北なんぼくに長ながい国くにです。

    Japan is a very long country from north to south.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 山脈さんみゃくが南北なんぼくに走はしる。

    The mountain range runs north–south.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 南北なんぼくの二区画にくかくに分わかれている。

    It is separated into the two areas of north and south.

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

Kanji in 南北

  • 南southOnナン・ナKunみなみ
  • 北northOnホクKunきた

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