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西
the West / abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2] / Spanish
西 character breakdown
cut off the feet / rising to a height / towering / bald
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
Characters with 西 as component
variant of 曬|晒[shai4]
(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
sacrifice
to perch / to rest (of birds) / to dwell / to live / to stay
to sprinkle / to spray / to spill / to shed
10th earthly branch: 5-7 p.m., 8th solar month (8th September-7th October), year of the Rooster / ancient Chinese compass point: 270° (west)
Rubia cordifolia / Indian madder / munjeet
used in the transliteration of people's names
variant of 乃[nai3] (used as a surname, in given names or in place names)
selenium (chemistry)
(literary) to smile / to sneer
troubled / vexed
Words with 西
Shanxi Province (Shansi) in north China between Hebei and Shaanxi, abbr. 晉|晋[Jin4] capital Taiyuan 太原[Tai4 yuan2]
the river flows thirty years to the East, thirty years to the West (proverb) / change is the only constant
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)
border area of northwest China (i.e. Xinjiang)