北回归线

Traditional form:

北回歸線

Pinyin (reading):

Běihuíguīxiàn

Definitions:

• Tropic of Cancer

Characters:

• 北 - north; northern; northward
• 回 - to return, to turn around; a time
• 归 - to return, to go back; to return to, to revert
• 线 - line, thread, wire; clue, trail

Traditional characters:

• 北 - north; northern; northward
• 回 - to return, to turn around; a time
• 歸 - to return, to go back; to return to, to revert
• 線 - line, thread, wire; clue, trail