南北
nán​běi HSK5

north and south

南北 nán​běi
north and south noun
the south and the north; the distance or direction from north to south

赤道是南北半球的分界线。

chì​dào shì nán​běi bàn​qiú de fēn​jiè​xiàn.

The equator is the boundary between the northern and southern hemispheres.

not a thing
(dialect) Used in wordplay or jokes to mean "not a thing" (based on the word for "thing" being 东西 dōng​xi, literally "east-west"); used as a humorous way to scold someone for being good-for-nothing
reason
(literary) reason; sense; logic (referring to whether something makes sense)
man
(archaic) a man (parallel to the use of 东西 dōng​xi for things)

Frequency
Movie subtitles
1.34 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
18.9 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 5

Cross-References

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)