西

Glyph origin
– a bag or basket, borrowed for phonetic value. Compare. Traditionally explained as a pictogram of a bird settling into its nest, which by analogy with the setting of the sun means “west”. This etymology has been disputed, but stands by it.

Etymology 1
The word is traditionally reconstructed to have a -initial in Old Chinese, e.g. in. However, recent scholarship has suggested that the Old Chinese initial should instead be reconstructed as, one of the reasons being appears to be the phonetic in , the archaic graphic variant of. The new reconstruction, in, also accounts for how  can be the phonetic in. For more information, see, and.

In light of the new construction with the initial consonant cluster, the possibilities of the etymology of 西, aside from being cognate with (B-S OC ), include:


 * Related to 🇨🇬.
 * Related to 🇨🇬, which may be the same etymon as the Written Tibetan word above.
 * Related to the root (OC  for intransitive form,  for transitive form in ).
 * Related to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.
 * An Austroasiatic nominal n-infix derivative from the root "go down", as in 🇨🇬 < 🇨🇬, with Proto-Austroasiatic > Proto-Sinitic . Therefore, this etymon literally means "the place where one goes down to > Mon "ghat" > OC "nest, west". The base form is  via Austroasiatic.

Definitions

 * 1) west; western

Descendants
Others:

Definitions

 * 1) spin
 * 2) to spin; to cause to spin
 * 3) carrying spin
 * 4) to deviate from a path due to some force
 * 5) to hit
 * 1) to hit
 * 1) to hit
 * 1) to hit
 * 1) to hit
 * 1) to hit

Kanji

 * 1) west
 * 2) Europe, European
 * 3) kanji used to transliterate foreign languages
 * : Spain, Spanish
 * 1) autumn

Etymology 1
Originally a compound of.

First cited in the  of 712, with the phonetic spelling.

Noun

 * 1)  west
 * 2) the West
 * 3)  the west wind, wind blowing from the west
 * 4)  in kabuki:
 * 5)  the left side of the stage in the Edo-style
 * 6)  the right side of the stage in Kyoto and Osaka styles
 * 7)   lower-ranked wrestlers listed on the left side of a banzuke
 * 8)  the West;  the capitalist states of the West
 * 1)   lower-ranked wrestlers listed on the left side of a banzuke
 * 2)  the West;  the capitalist states of the West
 * 1)  the West;  the capitalist states of the West

Proper noun

 * : the western paradise of Amitabha Buddha
 * : a Buddhist temple in
 * 1)  a red-light district in
 * 2) a place name, especially the name of various wards in major cities throughout Japan
 * 1) a place name, especially the name of various wards in major cities throughout Japan

Etymology 2
Possibly a corruption of.

Noun

 * 1)  west wind (mahjong tile)
 * 2)  a  with a triplet or quad of west wind tiles; depending on wind round and player's seat wind, it is worth either 1 or 2
 * 1)  a  with a triplet or quad of west wind tiles; depending on wind round and player's seat wind, it is worth either 1 or 2

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) the West

Han character

 * 1) west
 * 2) West the Western world