西, meaning "
west
West is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth.
Etymology
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", may refer to:
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Radical 146
Radical 146 or radical west () meaning "" or "west" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 29 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
, a varia ...
in the Kangxi Dictionary system of classifying Chinese characters
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Nishi (surname) Nishi (written: 西 lit. "west") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Nishi Amane (西 周, 1829–1897), philosopher
*Daigo Nishi (born 1987), football/soccer player
*Haruhiko Nishi (1893–1986), Japanese diplomat
*Kan ...
, Japanese surname
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Xi (surname) __NOTOC__
Xi ( ; ) is the romanization in Pinyin of several different Chinese family names, including:
* (; :zh:奚姓, see Chinese Wikipedia article)
* (; :zh:西姓, see Chinese Wikipedia article)
* (; :zh:席姓, see Chinese Wikipedia article)
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, Chinese surname
See also
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Nishi-ku (disambiguation) is a common ward name in many Japanese cities.
* Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture
* Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu, in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture
* Nishi-ku, Hiroshima, in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture
* Nishi-ku, Kōbe, in Kobe, Hyōg ...
, various districts in Japan
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Seo-gu (disambiguation) Seo District (), or " Western District," is the name of a ''gu'' in several South Korean cities:
* Seo District, Busan
* Seo District, Daegu
* Seo District, Daejeon
* Seo District, Gwangju
* Seo District, Incheon
Seo District () is the largest d ...
, various districts in South Korea
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西山 (disambiguation) 西山 is an East Asian name meaning "Western mountain" or "Western mountains".
西山 may refer to:
* Xishan (disambiguation) (xīshān), the Chinese pinyin transliteration
* Nishiyama (disambiguation), the Japanese transliteration of native Jap ...
("west mountain")
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西海 (disambiguation)
西海, meaning " west sea", may refer to:
In the Chinese reading Xīhǎi:
* Xihai Jun, a prefecture of ancient China
*Qinghai Lake, one of the Four Seas of China
In the Korean reading Seohae, alternatively spelled Sŏhae:
* Sohae University ( ...
("west sea")
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西湖 (disambiguation) 西湖 (literally "west lake") may refer to:
* Saiko (Yamanashi), one of the ''Fuji Five Lakes'', located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
*West Lake or ''Xī Hú'', a fresh water lake located in central Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China
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("west lake")
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