西

the West / abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2] / Spanish

西 = + : The wild west is largely recognized by the symbol of the cowboy hat.

西 = + : Marie Curie has gone crazy from the loneliness in space. In front of the space station, she sits inside of a large wooden box, wearing a cowboy hat and playing a 胡兀尔 fiddle, thinking that she's participating in a square dance in the wild west.

西 character breakdown

cut off the feet / rising to a height / towering / bald

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A 胡兀尔, a kind of Chinese fiddle with four strings, more commonly known as 四胡.

= + : Sun Wukong is playing his 胡兀尔 in the space station's bathroom, but he's deliberatly playing very badly in order to annoy Willy Walrus. Willy Walrus is so annoyed that he threatens to cut off Sun Wukong's feet with a flute if he doesn't stop.
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
enclosure

Mnemonic symbol: a plastic enclosure. Willy Walrus (w) is keeping frozen fish in an enclosure (囗) in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2).

Characters with 西 as component

variant of 曬|晒[shai4]

= + 西 : Sherlock Holmes (sh) is using the airplane's bathroom (ai4), but the sun (日) is really strong today. To not get sunburned (晒) and protect himself Sherlock wears a big cowboy hat (西).
(of the sun) to shine on / to bask in (the sunshine) / to dry (clothes, grain etc) in the sun / (fig.) to expose and share (one's experiences and thoughts) on the Web (loanword from "share") / (coll.) to give the cold shoulder to

= + 西 : Sherlock Holmes (sh) is using the airplane's bathroom (ai4), but the sun (日) is really strong today. To not get sunburned (晒) and protect himself Sherlock wears a big cowboy hat (西).
sacrifice

= + 西 : Marie Curie (xi) is selling an ox (牛) for cheap in front of the space station (Ø1) as a loss leader (牺). To pepper the ox a little up she puts a cowboy hat (西) on his head.
to perch / to rest (of birds) / to dwell / to live / to stay

= + 西 : The Queen of Hearts (qi) set up an artificial habitat (栖) in front of the space station (Ø1) by using a huge cowboy hat (西) as the base on which she erected a few Christmas trees (木).
to sprinkle / to spray / to spill / to shed

= + 西 : Socrates (s) bought a new cowboy hat (西) in the ashram (a3), but it is too small, so he sprinkles (洒) some water from a water bottle (氵) on it. He heard that'll make the hat fit he makes it wet and then wears it.
variant of 乃[nai3]
10th earthly branch: 5-7 p.m., 8th solar month (8th September-7th October), year of the Rooster / ancient Chinese compass point: 270° (west)

= + : The rooster and Maud Younger are taking part in a re-enactment in the outhouse. They re-enact former times by getting up with sunrise; the rooster stands on top of the sun and crows so that everybody gets up, and Maud Younger plays a traditional sihu fiddle.
Rubia cordifolia / Indian madder / munjeet
used in the transliteration of people's names
variant of 乃[nai3] (used as a surname, in given names or in place names)
selenium (chemistry)
(literary) to smile / to sneer
troubled / vexed

Words with 西

Kansai region, Japan / Guanxi or Kuanhsi town in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县[Xin1 zhu2 Xian4], northwest Taiwan
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), American author and biochemist
Abyssinia, historical name of Ethiopia
aw, fuck! (loanword from Korean 아! 씨발!)
Shaanxi province (Shensi) in northwest China, abbr. 陝|陕[Shan3] or 秦[Qin2], capital Xi'an 西安[Xi1 an1]
Tiexi district of Siping city 四平市, Jilin / Tiexi district of Shenyang city 瀋陽市|沈阳市, Liaoning
Guanxi or Kuanhsi town in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县[Xin1 zhu2 Xian4], northwest Taiwan
Abdulahat Abdurixit (1942-), PRC engineer and politician, chairman of Xinjiang autonomous region 1994-2003, in 2003 vice-chair of 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

Sentences with 西

nǐ
shì
shén
me
do̅ng
西
xi
 
 
gǎn
lái
guǎn
nǐ
su̅n
yé
ye