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HSK
thing / stuff / person / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *西* | 西* | *西
west
HSK 1
western part
HSK 3
watermelon / CL: 顆|颗, 個|个
HSK 4
Western-style food / CL: , 頓|顿
HSK 2
the West / the Occident / Western countries
HSK 2
west / west side / western part / to the west of
HSK 1
suit / Western-style clothes / CL:
HSK 5
Spanish language
HSK 6
northwest
HSK 2
southwest
HSK 2
to do one's shopping
to run this way and that (idiom); to rush about busily / to bustle about / to hopscotch / also 東跑西顛|东跑西颠
HSK 7-9
east and west
tomato
HSK 5
Western medicine / a doctor trained in Western medicine
HSK 2
to look in all directions (idiom) / to glance around
HSK 7-9
epsilon (Greek letter Εε)
Jixi, prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang Province 黑龍江省|黑龙江省
to go separate ways (idiom) / to part ways with sb / Taiwan pr. [ge4 ben1 dong1 xi1]
east and west / east to west
Xanthippe, Socrates' wife
Simon and Schuster, US publisher
(idiom) to sway from side to side; unsteady / (idiom) indecisive; hesitant
Xi'an International Studies University (XISU)
Indonesia
Garden of Gethsemane (in the Christian passion story)
Silvaner (grape type)
Tiexi district of Siping city 四平市, Jilin / Tiexi district of Shenyang city 瀋陽市|沈阳市, Liaoning
"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"
Brazil
Western Zhou (1045-771 BC) and Eastern Zhou (770-256 BC)
midwest
Dongxihu, a district of Wuhan City 武漢市|武汉市, Hubei
to the west of (suffix)
east, south, west and north / all directions
Xishan district of Kunming city 昆明市, Yunnan
westward
Michigan, US state (Tw)
to talk about this and that (idiom); to ramble incoherently
harmonious combination of Chinese and Western elements (idiom)
the five directions 五方 east, south, west, north and middle
Kansai region, Japan / Guanxi or Kuanhsi town in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县, northwest Taiwan
burrito / taco
the river flows thirty years to the East, thirty years to the West (proverb) / change is the only constant
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *西* | 西* | *西
the West / abbr. for Spain 西班牙 / Spanish
Gulf of Mexico
Eastern and Western culture
Shaanxi Normal University
adopting Western knowledge for its practical uses while keeping Chinese values as the core
Malaysia
Casio
China and the West / Chinese-Western
Spain
Lionel Messi (1987-), Argentine footballer
Mexico City, capital of Mexico
Mt Hua 華山|华山 in Shaanxi, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳
(name) Chelsea
West China (region in the upper reaches of Yangtze River and Sichuan Province)
Southwest Jiaotong University
Shanxi University
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO
the sun sets in the west (idiom)
East and West hemispheres
Spaniard / Spanish person
North Atlantic
East and West Germany / refers to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
if it isn't bright in the east, it'll be bright in the west (idiom) / if something doesn't work here, it might work somewhere else
Siemens (company name)
Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, travel record of Xuan Zang 玄奘, compiled by 辯機|辩机 in 646
Casimir effect (attraction between two parallel metal plates due to quantum mechanical vacuum effects)
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
Cyrillic alphabet / Cyrillic letters
Atlantic Ocean
Polynesia
east west south north
Jesse Owens (1913-1980), American athlete
lit. to tear down the east wall to repair the west wall (saying) / fig. to rob Peter to pay Paul
to micromanage / to be controlling
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)
Tom Clancy (1947-2013), US author
Sistine (Chapel) / also written 西斯汀
bastard / scoundrel / rogue
to run this way and that (idiom); to rush about busily / to bustle about
Xicheng, a district of central Beijing
West Bengal

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