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
- —北西航路Northwest Passage (sea route along the north coast of Canada)
- —北大西洋North Atlantic
- —米西戦争Spanish-American War (1898)
- —西高東低high barometric pressure to the west, low pressure to the east
- —西南の役Satsuma Rebellion (1877)
- —西洋将棋chess
- —日西辞典Japanese-Spanish dictionary
- —西欧諸国West European countries
- —西欧文明Western civilization; Western civilisation
- —西洋文明Western civilization; Western civilisation
- —東夷西戎barbarians to the east and to the west (from the perspective of old China)
- —南西諸島Nansei Islands; Ryukyu Islands; chain of islands extending from southwestern Kyushu to northern Taiwan
- —西洋蜜蜂Western honeybee; European honeybee (Apis mellifera)
- —祖師西来the coming of Bodhidharma from western India to China
- —西洋紙魚silverfish (Lepisma saccharina)
- —大西洋鮭Atlantic salmon (Salmo salmar)
- —大西洋鯡Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus)
- —西南戦争Satsuma Rebellion (1877)
- —西安事件Xi'an Incident (involving the arrest and confinement of Chiang Kai-shek; December 1936)
- —西洋鋸草yarrow (Achillea millefolium); milfoil