西

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

西 = + : The wild west is largely recognized by the symbol of the cowboy hat.

西 = + : Marie Curie has gone crazy from the loneliness in space. In front of the space station, she sits inside of a large wooden box, wearing a cowboy hat and playing a 胡兀尔 fiddle, thinking that she's participating in a square dance in the wild west.

西 character breakdown

cut off the feet / rising to a height / towering / bald

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A 胡兀尔, a kind of Chinese fiddle with four strings, more commonly known as 四胡.

= + : Sun Wukong is playing his 胡兀尔 in the space station's bathroom, but he's deliberatly playing very badly in order to annoy Willy Walrus. Willy Walrus is so annoyed that he threatens to cut off Sun Wukong's feet with a flute if he doesn't stop.
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).
enclosure

Mnemonic symbol: a plastic enclosure. Willy Walrus (w) is keeping frozen fish in an enclosure (囗) in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2).

Characters with 西 as component

variant of 踩[cai3]

= + : The King of Chu (c) is playing his guitar in the airplane (ai3). Every time he looses his plectrum (采) he quickly steps (踩) on it with his left cowboy boot (⻊) to prevent it from rolling away.
troubled / vexed
old variant of 遷|迁[qian1]
xenon (chemistry) (old)
ground rice / thresh rice
used in 舾裝|舾装[xi1 zhuang1]

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 enter heaven / to rise to the Western Paradise
see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yi1 ming4 wu1 hu1]
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
border area of northwest China (i.e. Xinjiang)

Sentences with 西

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