きた

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of きた – see the following entries.

【北】2

[noun] north (cardinal point)

[noun] the North (northern part of a region)

[noun] a northerly, north wind

[noun] short for 北の方 (kita no kata): northward

[noun] a developed country

[proper noun] Kita (one of 23 special wards in Tokyo prefecture, Japan)

[proper noun] (historical) the red-light district north of Edo Castle

[proper noun] a surname

[proper noun] a female given name

[verb] to go northwards

Alternative spelling
キタ

【来た】	[verb] past tense form of 来る (kuru)

【着た】	[verb] past tense form of 着る (kiru)

【常きだ】5

[noun] (obsolete) a traditional Japanese unit of measure for the length of cut cloth, equal to one 丈(じょう) (jō, roughly three meters) and three 尺(しゃく) (shaku, roughly one foot or thirty centimeters)

[noun] (obsolete) a traditional Japanese unit of measure for the area of an agricultural field or paddy, equal initially to 360 歩(ぶ) (bu, around 1190 square meters), later reduced to 300 歩(ぶ) (bu) or 坪(つぼ) (tsubo, almost 992 square meters)

Alternative spelling
段

(This term, きた (kita), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as きた, see Category:Japanese kanji read as きた.