HanyuGuide logo
Home Tools Dictionary Feedback Blog
Login Register
Tools Dictionary Feedback Blog
Login Register
← Back to Dictionary

See How Fast You Can Learn Chinese

Try our interactive spaced repetition demo—study your first words in 60 seconds

Interactive demo Takes 60 seconds No sign-up needed
Try Demo Now

北斗

  • Download audio
  • License Info
  • Audio is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, building on the work of CC-CEDICT.

běi dǒu

Sign in to save this word to your study lists.

Definitions

  1. 1. Great Bear
  2. 2. Big Dipper
  3. 3. Beidou or Peitou Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县[zhāng huà xiàn], Taiwan

Words Containing 北斗

北斗卫星导航系统
běi dǒu wèi xīng dǎo háng xì tǒng

BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) (similar to GPS)

南箕北斗
nán jī běi dǒu

lit. the Winnowing Basket in the southern sky, and the Big Dipper in the north (idiom)

北斗星
běi dǒu xīng

the Big Dipper

泰山北斗
tài shān běi dǒu

lit. Mount Tai and the North Star (idiom)

北斗七星
běi dǒu qī xīng

(astronomy) Big Dipper

北斗镇
běi dǒu zhèn

Beidou or Peitou Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县[zhāng huà xiàn], Taiwan

Child Words of 北斗

斗
dòu

to fight

北
běi

north

HanyuGuide
  • Feedback
  • Learning Tools
  • Dictionary
  • Open Source
  • For Schools
  • For Educators
  • For Tutors
  • For HSK Learners
Tools
  • Chinese to Pinyin
  • Type Pinyin
  • HSK Quiz
Legal
  • Terms of use
  • Privacy policy
Account
  • Login
  • Register

学而不思则罔,思而不学则殆 — Study without reflection is pointless; reflection without study is dangerous.

Built with 🧋 and ❤️ by an indie maker, your feedback is important to me. Reach me at hey@hanyuguide.com anytime.

Copyright© 2025 - All rights reserved by HanyuGuide