西
xīTraditional: 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。
The sun sets in the west.
。
His home is on the west side of the city.
百。
Walk west for five hundred metres and you will be there.
。
There are many mountains in the west of China.
风。
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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