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east and west
thing / stuff / person / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
Ximen Qing, a fictional character in the novels "Jin Ping Mei" 金瓶梅 and "Water Margin" 水滸傳|水浒传
to look in all directions (idiom) / to glance around
HSK 7-9
epsilon (Greek letter Εε)
Simon and Schuster, US publisher
Xigong, a district of Luoyang City 洛陽市|洛阳市, Henan
Book of Hosea
to micromanage / to be controlling
Brazil
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO
Central and Western district of Hong Kong
midwest
western part
HSK 3
to the west of (suffix)
(derog.) to be a good-for-nothing / worthless nobody / no-good
westward
Michigan, US state (Tw)
western equine encephalitis (WEE) virus
harmonious combination of Chinese and Western elements (idiom)
Xihe, a county in Longnan City 隴南市|陇南市, Gansu
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (1949-), retired Indonesian general, president of the Republic of Indonesia 2004-2014
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the West / abbr. for Spain 西班牙 / Spanish
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west
HSK 1
watermelon / CL: 顆|颗, 個|个
HSK 4
Xifeng county in Tieling 鐵嶺|铁岭, Liaoning
the river flows thirty years to the East, thirty years to the West (proverb) / change is the only constant
Serf Liberation Day (PRC)
China and the West / Chinese-Western
Spain
Lionel Messi (1987-), Argentine footballer
Siemens (company name)
Mexico City, capital of Mexico
Siberia
"Journey to the West", a Ming dynasty novel by Wu Cheng'en 吳承恩|吴承恩, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, also known as "Pilgrimage to the West" or "Monkey"
Eastern and Western culture
Chinese and Western medicine / a doctor trained in Chinese and Western medicine
east and west / east to west
Taixi or Taihsi township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
Spaniard / Spanish person
broccoli
North Atlantic
burrito / taco
Michigan, US state (Tw)
In the eyes of the lover, a famous beauty (idiom). Beauty in the eye of the beholder
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, capital Nanning 南寧市|南宁市 (abbr. to )
lit. in the eyes of a lover appears 西施 (idiom); fig. beauty is in the eye of the beholder
to talk about this and that (idiom); to ramble incoherently
East and West Germany / refers to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
the Western Hemisphere
Xihu or West lake (place name) / West Lake in Hangzhou 杭州, Zhejiang / Xihu or Hsihu township in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县, northwest Taiwan
(Buddhism) to go to the Western Paradise / (fig.) to die
to sail west (from China) (used in reference to the 15th century voyages of Zheng He 鄭和|郑和 to regions bordering the Indian Ocean)
Mississippi River
Nicosia, capital of Cyprus (Tw)
lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west (idiom); fig. temporary expedient / Rob Peter to pay Paul
Western learning (intellectual movement in the late Qing) / also called 洋務運動|洋务运动
Atlantic Ocean
Nakhi ethnic group in Yunnan
(name) Chelsea
New Zealand
Hoh Xil or Kekexili, vast nature reserve on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 青藏高原
Shanxi Province, capital Taiyuan 太原市 (abbr. to 晉|晋)
Sistine (Chapel) / also written 西斯汀
Dongxihu, a district of Wuhan City 武漢市|武汉市, Hubei
to die (euphemism, lit. to return West or to the Western Paradise)
Southwestern Mandarin, dialect group of Mandarin spoken primarily in southwestern China
West Bengal
Western-style food / CL: , 頓|顿
HSK 2
Malaysian Malay (the official variety of Malay spoken in Malaysia)
the five directions 五方 east, south, west, north and middle
Xishi (c. 450 BC), famous Chinese beauty, foremost of the four legendary beauties 四大美女, given by King Gou Jian 勾踐|勾践 of Yue as concubine to King of Wu as part of a successful plan to destroy Wu
Western European Union (WEU)
Garcia (person name)
to dodge about
Strait of Messina between Calabria and Sicily
Claude Debussy (1862–1918), French composer
(Tw) betel nut beauty: a skimpily-dressed, attractive girl who sells betel nut from a glass-walled roadside booth
to do one's shopping
to lean unsteadily from side to side (idiom) / to sway / (of buildings etc) to lean at a crazy angle
southwest part
lit. the sun rises in the west (idiom) / fig. hell freezes over / pigs can fly
Shanxi University
Mount Sinai
Xidan neighborhood of central Beijing
punitive expedition to the west
Cyrillic alphabet / Cyrillic letters
Western Sichuan
Polynesia
Xizhimen neighborhood of Beijing / the main northwest gate of Beijing

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