Mnemonic symbol: for “the wild west” I choose a cowboy hat. To me, 西 also kind of looks like a cowboy hat: 囗 looks like the brim and 兀 looks like the crown of the cowboy hat.
Xi Shi (xi) went crazy from the loneliness in outer space. In front of the space station (Ø1), she sits inside of a large plastic enclosure (囗), wearing a cowboy hat (西) and playing a 胡兀尔 (兀) fiddle, thinking that she’s participating in a square dance in the wild west (西).
The cowboy hat is a classic, weathered Stetson-style cowboy hat crafted from dark chocolate brown beaver felt, featuring a high, cattleman-creased crown, a wide, subtly upturned raw-edge brim, and a thin, matching leather band adorned with a single small, silver three-piece buckle set.
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