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Mythic Mandarin

西方 (Xī fāng): meaning and stroke order

西方 (Xī fāng) means the West, the Occident, Western countries.

西方

Simplified
西方
Traditional
西方 (same form)
Pinyin
Xī fāng

Stroke order of 西方

西

  • Xī the West; abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2]
  • xī west
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

方

  • Fāng surname Fang
  • fāng square; power or involution (math.)
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 西方

  1. Xī fāng
    • the West
    • the Occident
    • Western countries

Radicals of the characters

西
Radical 襾 (Kangxi radical 146) · 6 strokes · 一 on top, 𠁤 below
方
Radical 方 (Kangxi radical 70) · 4 strokes · 丶 on top, 万 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

西方 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 夸父看着族人一个个倒下，心中悲愤交加。他想：太阳每天从东方升起，在西方落下，如果能追上它，让它听人的话，该有多好！

    Kuāfù kànzhe zúrén yígègè dǎo xià xīnzhōng bēifènjiāojiā tā xiǎng tàiyáng měitiān cóng dōngfāng shēngqǐ zài xīfāng luò xià rúguǒ néng zhuī shàng tā ràng tā tīng rén de huà gāi yǒu duō hǎo

    Watching his people collapse one after another, Kuafu was filled with grief and anger. He thought: the sun rises in the east every day and sets in the west; if he could catch it and make it obey people, how wonderful that would be!

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 西方

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).