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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
- N4西洋Popularthe West; the Occident; Western countries
- N2西暦PopularCommon Era; CE; Christian Era; anno domini; AD; Western (Gregorian) calendar
- —西欧PopularWestern Europe; the West; the Occident; Europe
- —西南Popularsouth-west
- —西部Popularwestern part; the west (of a region); the West (United States)
- —北西Popularnorthwest
- —西方Popularwestern direction; Western Pure Land (Amitabha's Buddhist paradise); western fighter in a match (e.g. sumo)
- —南西Popularsouthwest
- —西独PopularWest Germany (1949-1990)
- —西洋人PopularWestern person; Westerner
- —大西洋PopularAtlantic Ocean
- —西Spain
- —以西... and westward; in and to the west of ...
- —正西due west
- —西岸west coast; west bank
- —西経west longitude
- —西北north-west
- —泰西the Occident; the West
- —西紀Christian era
- —西遊westward trip; trip to the West