西 (xī)
west; Western
How 西 is written
- Strokes
- 6
- Traditional
- 西
- Simplified
- 西 (unchanged)
Common words using 西
- 東西 dōngxī
- east and west
- 西安 xīān
- Xi'an city, subprovincial city and capital of Shaanxi 陝西省|陕西省[Shan3 xi1 sheng3] in northwest China; see 西安區|西安区[Xi1 an1 qu1]
- 西遊記 xīyóujì
- Journey to the West, Ming dynasty novel by Wu Cheng'en 吳承恩|吴承恩, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature; also called Pilgrimage to the West or Monkey
- 中西 zhōngxī
- China and the West; Chinese-Western
- 切爾西 qièěrxī
- Chelsea
- 卡西歐 kǎxīōu
- Casio
- 印度尼西亞 yìndùníxīyà
- Indonesia
- 可可西里 kěkěxīlǐ
- Hoh Xil or Kekexili, vast nature reserve on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 青藏高原[Qing1 Zang4 gao1 yuan2]
- 各奔東西 gèbèndōngxī
- to go separate ways (idiom); to part ways with someone
- 墨西哥 mòxīgē
- Mexico
- 大西洋 dàxīyáng
- Atlantic Ocean
- 山西 shānxī
- Shanxi province (Shansi) in north China between Hebei and Shaanxi, abbr. 晋 capital Taiyuan 太原
西 in a sentence
太陽從西邊落下。
Tàiyáng cóng xībiān luòxià.
“The sun sets in the west.”
How common is 西?
西 is the 167th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 52.1% of all running text.
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