西

the West / abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2] / Spanish
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西 character breakdown

cut off the feet / rising to a height / towering / bald
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mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
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Characters with 西 as component

(of the sun) to shine on / to bask in (the sunshine) / to dry (clothes, grain etc) in the sun / (fig.) to expose and share (one's experiences and thoughts) on the Web (loanword from "share") / (coll.) to give the cold shoulder to
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variant of 曬|晒[shai4]
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to perch / to rest (of birds) / to dwell / to live / to stay
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10th earthly branch: 5-7 p.m., 8th solar month (8th September-7th October), year of the Rooster / ancient Chinese compass point: 270° (west)
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Rubia cordifolia / Indian madder / munjeet
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used in the transliteration of people's names
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variant of 乃[nai3] (used as a surname, in given names or in place names)
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(literary) to smile / to sneer
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Words with 西

to lean unsteadily from side to side (idiom) / to sway / (of buildings etc) to lean at a crazy angle
to run this way and that (idiom); to rush about busily / to bustle about / to hopscotch / also 東跑西顛|东跑西颠[dong1 pao3 xi1 dian1]
the river flows thirty years to the East, thirty years to the West (proverb) / change is the only constant
to enter heaven / to rise to the Western Paradise
to sail west (from China) (used in reference to the 15th century voyages of Zheng He 鄭和|郑和[Zheng4 He2] to regions bordering the Indian Ocean)
(derog.) to be a good-for-nothing / worthless nobody / no-good
see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yi1 ming4 wu1 hu1]
banging away clumsily in all directions with no overall vision
lit. the sun setting and the moon rising (idiom) / fig. the passage of time
east, south, west and north / all directions
the five directions 五方 east, south, west, north and middle

Sentences with 西

nǐ
shì
shén
me
do̅ng
西
xi
 
 
gǎn
lái
guǎn
nǐ
su̅n
yé
ye
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