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西

Kyōiku kanjiJōyō kanji2nd grade kanji6 strokesJLPT N5 kanji

Tags

Kyōiku kanji
Kanji that Japanese students should learn in elementary school #kyoiku
Jōyō kanji
Kanji considered of common use by the Japanese Ministry of Education #joyo
2nd grade kanji
Kanji learned in second grade (elementary school) #grade-2
6 strokes
Kanji with 6 strokes #strokes-6
JLPT N5 kanji
JLPT N5 kanji: Basic Level #jlpt5k

Reading

  • On'yomi
    セイサイ
  • Kun'yomi
    にし
  • Nanori
    いりひしむら
  • Chinese (pinyin)
    xi1
  • Korean (hangul)
  • Korean (romanized)
    seo
  • Vietnamese
    Tây
  • Kantenji (braille kanji)
    ⠱⡎

Meaning

Stroke order

Not available for this kanji.

西 stroke 1西 stroke 2西 stroke 3西 stroke 4西 stroke 5西 stroke 6西 stroke 7
Number of strokes: 6

Components in kanji 西

Antonyms

Popular words containing this kanji

西 にし
popularJLPT N5noun (generic)
  • west
関西 かんさい
popularJLPT N2noun (generic)
  • Kansai (region comprising Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe and surrounding prefectures)
東西 とうざい
popularJLPT N2noun (generic)adjective (generic)
  • east and west
西洋 せいよう
popularJLPT N4noun (generic)
  • the West, the Occident, Western countries
西暦 せいれき
popularJLPT N2noun (generic)
  • Common Era, CE, Christian Era, anno domini, AD
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Extended information

  • Frequency259
  • KANJIDIC Project

    1534

    "Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by Andrew Nelson (now published as the "Classic" Nelson)

    4273

    "The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by John Haig

    5514

    "New Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by Jack Halpern

    3520

    "Kanji Learners Dictionary" (Kodansha) by Jack Halpern

    2193

    "Remembering The Kanji" by James Heisig

    1602

    "A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage" (Gakken)

    167

    "Japanese Names", by P.G. O'Neill

    336

    "Essential Kanji" by .GP. O'Neill

    28

    "Daikanwajiten" by Morohashi

    34763:10:279

    "A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters" by Kenneth G. Henshall

    152

    "Kanji and Kana" by Spahn and Hadamitzky

    72

    "Kanji and Kana" by Spahn and Hadamitzky (2011 edition)

    72

    "A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese" by Florence Sakade

    96

    Japanese Kanji Flashcards, by Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki (Series 1)

    83

    "A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese" 3rd edition, by Henshall, Seeley and De Groot

    169

    Tuttle Kanji Cards, by Alexander Kask

    128

    "The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power" by Dale Crowley

    198

    "Kanji in Context" by Nishiguchi and Kono

    40

    "Japanese For Busy People" vols I-III, published by the AJLT. The codes are the volume.chapter

    2.20

    The "Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide"

    1638

    Codes from Yves Maniette's "Les Kanjis dans la tete" French adaptation of Heisig

    1616

    "Remembering The Kanji, 6th Ed." by James Heisig

    1728

    "Kodansha Kanji Dictionary", (2nd Ed. of the NJECD) by Jack Halpern

    4333

    "Kanji Learners Dictionary" (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) by Jack Halpern

    2951
  • Halpern's SKIP (System of Kanji Indexing by Patterns) code

    4-6-1

    The descriptor codes for The Kanji Dictionary (Tuttle1996) by Spahn and Hadamitzky

    0a6.20

    The "Four Corner" code for the kanji. This is a code invented by Wang Chen in 1928

    1060.0

    The codes developed by the late Father Joseph De Roo, and published in his book "2001 Kanji" (Bonjinsha)

    3275
  • JIS X 0208-1997 - kuten coding nn-nn

    1-32-30

    Decimal representation of the UTF16 character

    35199