Traditional: 北極
北极 (běi jí) means “the North Pole; the Arctic Pole; the north magnetic pole”. It is an HSK 6 Chinese word (traditional 北極) in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
Practice each character:
北极冰川正在融化。
Běijí bīngchuān zhèngzài rónghuà.
Arctic glaciers are melting.
Updated: 2026-05-27