西北
xī​běi HSK2

northwest

西北 xī​běi
northwest noun
the direction between west and north

我们应该向西北行驶。

wǒ​men yīng​gāi xiàng xī​běi xíng​shǐ.

We should be heading northwest.

Northwest China
specifically refers to the northwest region of China, including the provinces and autonomous regions of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, and Xinjiang

Frequency
Movie subtitles
5.63 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
14.5 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 2

Cross-References

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)