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北上

Mandarin · pinyin běi shàng

to go up north

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北: běi · north; northern; northward
上: shàng · top; superior, highest; go up, send up

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3–4 · bei3 shang4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

bak1 soeng5

Cantonese word readings for 北上. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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verb

to go north
to go north — to travel from Hong Kong or Macau to Mainland China

name

(～市) Kitakami (a city in Iwate Prefecture, Japan)

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