西
xīTraditional: 西
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Translation
west
Stroke order
西
Examples
。
I'm going to buy a few things.
阳落。
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.
Related words
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 西.
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