(xī) - west, western in Mandarin

xī

Traditional: 西

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Translation

west, western

Word origin

Originally a pictograph of a bird settling into its nest at dusk, borrowed to mean the direction of the setting sun, the west.

Origin: pictograph
Root: 西 (a bird in its nest at sunset)

Stroke order

西

Examples

落luò。

The sun sets in the west.

。

His home is on the west side of the city.

百bǎi。

Walk west for five hundred metres and you will be there.

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There are many mountains in the west of China.

风fēng。

The wind blows from the west.

西 (xī) means west, one of the four cardinal directions. It appears in many compounds such as 西边 (the west side) and 西方 (the West).

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 西.

东西dōng xīthing, object, stuff

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This word is part of lesson 38.