西

Traditional: 西

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Translation

west

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西

Examples

I'm going to buy a few things.

yángluò

The sun sets in the west.

He lives on the west side of the city.

西 (xī) means west, and pairs with 东 to form 东西 (literally 'east-west'), which has become the everyday word for thing or stuff. The directional sense lives on in 西边 and 西方.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 西.

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This word is part of lesson 102.