north / (classical) to be defeated

= + : A compass rose. In the Eiffel Tower, Beelzebub tries to build a compass. As a baseplate he uses a piece of wood, on which he sticks the north pike of a compass rose. On the south pike he balances a ladle, which is supposed to adjust itself to earth's magnetic field.

北 character breakdown

dagger / ladle / ancient type of spoon

= 丿 + : Brunhilde plays a game inside the space station's living room (Ø3) using zero gravity: using a big ladle (mnemonic symbol for 匕) and a shovel (乚) as bats, she beats a banana (丿) back and forth.
"piece of wood" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 90), mirror image of 片[pian4]

= + : Just as she entered the anglepod, the Queen of Hearts craves for a popsicle. It seems like a miracle that just inside the anglepod's kitchen she finds a crate full of popsicles, which she cracks open using a dinosaur bone. Unfortunately, all the popsicles are contaminated with pieces of wood.
classifier for strips of land or bamboo, shops, factories etc / slit bamboo or chopped wood (dialect)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: log of wood.

Just inside the anthill's kitchen (an2) Pinocchio (p) sees a pile of wood logs (爿) beneath a wind wheel (丆). Thinking that it was the wind wheel which chopped the wood, feeling personally threatened, he attacks the wind wheel with a roast fork (丩).

Characters with 北 as component

variant of 背[bei1]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 背包, rucksack.

Beelzebub is on a trip to Paris together with the moon, which he carries in a rucksack. Beelzebub always follows his compass rose, but since it is affected by the moon's magnetic field, Beelzebub and the moon just circle the Eiffel Tower.
to be burdened / to carry on the back or shoulder

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 背包, rucksack.

Beelzebub is on a trip to Paris together with the moon, which he carries in a rucksack. Beelzebub always follows his compass rose, but since it is affected by the moon's magnetic field, Beelzebub and the moon just circle the Eiffel Tower.
the back of a body or object / to turn one's back / to hide something from / to learn by heart / to recite from memory / unlucky (slang) / hard of hearing
four horse military chariot (archaic) / four (archaic) / generic term for history books
(archaic) four horse military chariot / (archaic) four / generic term for history books
old variant of 乘[cheng2]

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) is riding (乘) a chariot through engine's entrance ((e)ng2). He is navigating using a compass rose (北) and keeps his four horses running by suspending cereals in(禾) front of them.
surname Cheng

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) is riding (乘) a chariot through engine's entrance ((e)ng2). He is navigating using a compass rose (北) and keeps his four horses running by suspending cereals in(禾) front of them.
to ride / to mount / to make use of / to avail oneself of / to take advantage of / to multiply (math.) / Buddhist sect or creed

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) is riding (乘) a chariot through engine's entrance ((e)ng2). He is navigating using a compass rose (北) and keeps his four horses running by suspending cereals in(禾) front of them.
Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337-370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409-436) / surname Yan
swallow (family Hirundinidae) / old variant of 宴[yan4]

= + + 廿 + : Maud Younger (y) put a swallow (燕) on a grill (灬) in the anthill's bathroom (an4), but before she did that she oriented the grill towards east using a compass rose (北). She also put a mandarin (口) in the swallow's mouth. Later she'll put the swallow in a flower pot (廿) when it is done.
variant of 燕[yan4]

= + + 廿 + : Maud Younger (y) put a swallow (燕) on a grill (灬) in the anthill's bathroom (an4), but before she did that she oriented the grill towards east using a compass rose (北). She also put a mandarin (口) in the swallow's mouth. Later she'll put the swallow in a flower pot (廿) when it is done.
(of a child) obedient, well-behaved / clever / shrewd / alert / perverse / contrary to reason / irregular / abnormal

= + : Gitta Giraffe wants to behave well in front of the airplane. She has a compass rose and a kilo, but she is totally not going to squash the compass rose.

Words with 北

China's three northern regions, 東北|东北[Dong1 bei3], 華北|华北[Hua2 bei3] and 西北[Xi1 bei3]
Green Wall of China, a massive afforestation program on the eastern margin of the Gobi Desert aimed at stopping the desert's expansion, started in 1978 and planned to be completed by 2050
Qiubei county in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture 文山壯族苗族自治州|文山壮族苗族自治州[Wen2 shan1 Zhuang4 zu2 Miao2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan
Qiubei county in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture 文山壯族苗族自治州|文山壮族苗族自治州[Wen2 shan1 Zhuang4 zu2 Miao2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan
the Treaty of Beijing of 1860 between Qing China and Tsarist Russia
North University of China (Shanxi)
border area of northwest China (i.e. Xinjiang)

Sentences with 北

北 currently does not appear in any sentence.