西

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[edit] Translingual

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[edit] Etymology

Ideogram (指事): derived from a pictogram of a bird settling into its nest, and by analogy with the setting of the sun means "west".

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Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

[edit] Han character

西 (radical 146 西+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 一金田 (MCW)西, four-corner 10600, composition)

  1. west, western
  2. westward, occident

[edit] Coordinate terms

  •  (north)
  •  (east)
  •  (south)

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 1128, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34763
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1595, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2805, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+897F

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

西 (Yale sai1)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

西 (hiragana にし, romaji nishi)

  1. the west

[edit] Proper noun

西 (hiragana にし, romaji Nishi)

  1. A surname.

[edit] Kanji

西 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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[edit] Usage notes

nishi may be used as separate word. sei, on the other hand, is used mainly in compounds, like 西南 (せいなん seinan) - south west (literally "west south").


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[edit] Hanja

西
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: seo, McCune-Reischauer: sŏ, Yale: se)
  • Name (hangeul): 서녘 (revised: seonyeok, McCune-Reischauer: sŏnyŏk, Yale: senyekh)
  • Examples
    • 서부 西部 (seobu) western (part)

[edit] Mandarin

simpl. and trad.
西

[edit] Etymology

  • "Image of a bird sitting on its nest... the West, for the birds go to roost when the sun is setting" --Wieger.

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[edit] Hanzi

西 (pinyin (), yāo (yāo), yǎo (yǎo), Wade-Giles hsi1, yao1, yao3, Yale syi)


[edit] Adjective

西 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin )

  1. Western; occidental

[edit] Noun

西 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin )

  1. west

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[edit] Usage notes

西 is the 146th radical of the Chinese dictionary. In its few compounds it most often appears at the top in the form 覀 as in . It is important to distinguish it from and .

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[edit] Min Nan

[edit] Hanzi

西 (traditional and simplified, POJ sai (vernacular), se (literary), si (native))

  1. west-
    西北風

[edit] Okinawan


[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

西 (tây)

  • Sơn Tây 山西
  • Tây Sơn 西山

[edit] Readings

[edit] References

  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
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