西

• Alternate form: 覀

• Radical Number 146: 西+0 stroke

• Stroke number: 6

• Stroke order:
  1. The top-most horizontal stroke is done, from left to right.
  2. The left-most vertical stroke is done, from top to bottom.
  3. The middle horizontal line and the right-most vertical line are done as one stroke, from top-left to bottom-right.
  4. The left-most of the two strokes that crosses through the middle horizontal stroke is done, from top to bottom.
  5. The right-most of the two strokes (the L-shaped one) is done, from top-left to bottom-right.
  6. The bottom-most horizontal stroke is done, from left to right.

• Four-Corner System: 1060₀

• Cangjie input: 一金田 (MCW)

• Graphical Significance and Origin:

• Common meaning\:
  1. west, western
  2. westward, occident

Table of contents

1 Chinese Hanzi 2 Japanese Kanji 3 Korean Hanja 4 Dictionary Information 5 Technical Information

Chinese Hanzi

• Romanizations
  • Mandarin
    • Pinyin: xī (xi1), yāo (yao1), yǎo (yao3)
    • Wade-Giles: hsi¹, yao¹, yao³
    • Yale: syi
  • Cantonese
    • Jyutping:
    • Penkyamp:
    • Yale: sai1

• Other info: 西 is the 146th radical of the Chinese dictionary. In its few compounds it most often appears at the top in the form 覀 as in 覄. It is important to distinguish it from 襾 and 酉.

Japanese Kanji

• Readings
  • On: せい (sei), さい (sai)
  • Kun: にし (nishi)

• Other info: nishi may be used as separate word. sei, on the other hand, is used mainly in compounds, like 西南 (せいなん seinan) - south west (literaly "west south").

Korean Hanja

• Hangeul: 서

• Eumhun reading:

• Romanizations
  • The 2000 South Korean Revised: seo
  • McCune-Reischauer: sŏ
  • Yale: se

• Examples
  • 서부 [西部] (seobu) western (part)

Dictionary Information

• KangXi: 1128.100
• Morobashi: 34763
• Dae Jaweon: 1595.190
• Hanyu Da Zidian: 42805.020