西
xī HSK1

west

西 xī
west nounadjective
The direction where the sun sets; west; western

我们要往西走。

wǒ​men yào wǎng xī zǒu.

We're heading west.

the West noun
(bound form) Western; relating to Europe and the Americas; Occidental
here and there verb
(bound form) used in tandem with 东 dōng to indicate various places, directions, or a lack of order
Spain
(bound form) short for 西班牙 xī​bān​yá
surname
a Chinese surname
the afterlife
(bound form) short for the Western Paradise of Buddhism (Sukhavati), often used as a euphemism for death

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Frequency
Character
Written text
167th most common 1259.0 per million
Movie subtitles
143rd most common 1260.1 per million appears in 98% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
77.7 per million appears in 19% of films
Written text
159.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+897F

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)