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The kanji 西: meaning, readings and stroke order
西
- Meaning
- west
- On reading
- セイ sei、サイ sai
- Kun reading
- にし nishi
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 西 west
- Level
- Level 2 · grade 2
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- phía tây (tây)
- Japanese
- にし。
- Korean
- 서쪽 (서)
- Chinese
- 西方
Readings, words and example sentences
セイ sei · on reading
西南
southwest
西南の 方角を 見ます。
I look toward the southwest.
サイ sai · on reading
東西
east and west
東西に 長い 国です。
It is a country that is long from east to west.
にし nishi · kun reading
西
west
西の 空が 赤く なりました。
The western sky turned red.
Practise writing 西 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 西 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 2 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.