西 xi

west; the West; abbr. for Spain 西xī bān yá

HSK 1 #167

Character data

HSK 1
Frequency 167th character
Radical ⾑ (146.0)
Strokes 6
Index # 384

Definitions

西 xī
  1. 1. west
  2. 2. the West
  3. 3. abbr. for Spain 西xī bān yá
  4. 4. Spanish

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Words containing 西

Word Meaning
bohemian (i.e. artistic and unconventional)
Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province
famous ancient beauty; very beautiful woman
Lucifer; the devil in Christianity
Nishimura (Japanese surname)
Indonesia
Cicero, Roman orator and statesman
Ulysses (novel)
to go separate ways (idiom); to part ways with sb
Western Hemisphere
longitude west
Western medicine; a doctor trained in Western medicine
Pennsylvania; also written bīn xī fǎ ní yà
(symbol for standard deviation in statistics)
Spaniard; Spanish person
Sidon (Lebanon)
Polynesia
Western style
Cyrillic; Cyril (name)
lit. drink the northwest wind (idiom); cold and hungry
to lean unsteadily from side to side (idiom); to sway
penicillin (loanword)
Sicily
Messina, Sicilian city
the sun sets in the west (idiom)