北
běi HSK1

north

北 běi
north directional
the direction to the left of a person facing east; the northern part of a region

指南针指向北。

zhǐ​nán​zhēn zhǐ​xiàng běi.

The compass points north.

defeated directional
to be defeated in battle or to flee after a defeat (classical usage)

面对猛烈的攻击，敌军体力不支，最终溃败而北。

miàn​duì měng​liè de gōng​jī, dí​jūn tǐ​lì bù​zhī, zuì​zhōng kuì​bài ér běi.

Facing a fierce attack, the enemy forces were exhausted and eventually suffered a crushing defeat and fled.

Frequency
Character
Written text
315th most common 707.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,129th most common 80.4 per million appears in 27% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
30.1 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
103.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+5317

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)