Pictographic: Two people 匕 sitting back-to-back; phonetic loan for "north"Radical:

meaning for běi:

  • - north
  • - (classical) to be defeatedBeijing, capital of People's Republic of China
  • - Peking
  • - PRC governmentNortheast China
  • - Manchurianortheastnorth
  • - the northern part a country
  • - China north of the Yellow RiverNorthwest China (Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang)

xiǎo
běi
hěn
hàixiū害羞
bùzhīdào不知道
rúhé如何
zǒujìn走进
lǎoshī老师
de
bàngōngshì办公室

Xiaobei was very shy and didn't know how to step into the teacher's office.


dōng
zhì
chāngshèng昌盛
nán
zhì
xué
yīn
西
zhì
xiùshuǐ秀水
xuéyuàn学院
yòngde用地
jiè
běi
zhì
wénchāng文昌

Reaching Changsheng road on the east, Xueyin road on the south, plot for Xiushui College on the west, Wenchang road on the north.