Kanji1 / 6
西 kanji
west, Spain
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
セイサイス
Kun readings
にし
Variant forms
覀Words with 西
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —西土western lands (China, India, etc.); the West
- —西哲distinguished Western philosopher; great Western thinker; Western philosophy
- —西域western regions of China
- —西漸westward advance
- —西郊western suburb
- —西和Spanish-Japanese
- —和西Japanese-Spanish (e.g. dictionary)
- —西語Spanish (language)
- —西戎Xirong; Rong; inhabitants of the extremities of China as early as the Shang dynasty (1765-1122 BCE); barbarians to the west
- —西端western edge (e.g. of city); west side
- —日西Japan and Spain; Japanese-Spanish
- —西日Spanish-Japanese (dictionary, translation, etc.)
- —西縁western edge; west margin
- —西神(in the) Kobe area
- —西晋Western Jin dynasty (of China; 265-317 CE); Western Chin dynasty
- —西周Western Zhou dynasty (of China; ca. 1046-771 BCE); Western Chou dynasty
- —西漢Western Han dynasty (of China; 206 BCE-9 CE); Former Han dynasty
- —西序memorial rite involving the western sanctum
- —西壁west wall; west face (of a mountain)
- —西進proceeding west