96 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
169 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
152 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
167 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
4273 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
28 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
83 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
336 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
2.20 | Japanese for Busy People |
72 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
72 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
40 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1638 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
4333 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2193 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2951 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1616 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
34763 | Morohashi |
3520 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
5514 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1602 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1728 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
198 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
128 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
西
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
259 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 西 【セイ】 Spain
- 西欧 【セイオウ】 Western Europe, the West, the Occident, Europe
- 南西 【ナンセイ】 southwest
- 北北西 【ホクホクセイ】 north-northwest
- 西方 【セイホウ】 western direction, Western Pure Land (Amitabha's Buddhist paradise), western fighter in a match (e.g. sumo)
- 西遊 【セイユウ】 westward trip, trip to the West
- 西瓜 【スイカ】 watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)
- 西班牙 【スペイン】 Spain
Kun reading compounds
- 西 【にし】 west
- 西方 【せいほう】 western direction, Western Pure Land (Amitabha's Buddhist paradise), western fighter in a match (e.g. sumo)
- 南西 【なんせい】 southwest
- 京都外大西 【きょうとがいだいにし】 Kyoto Gaidainishi
Readings
- Japanese names:
- いり、 ひし、 むら
- Korean:
- seo
Spanish
- Oeste
- España
Portuguese
- oeste
- Espanha
French
- Ouest
- Espagne
3275 | 2001 Kanji |
0a6.20 | The Kanji Dictionary |
4-6-1 | SKIP code |
1060.0 | Four corner code |
1-32-30 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
897f | Unicode hex code |
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 瓜蒂 【カテイ】 stem and calyx of muskmelon (used in traditional Chinese medicine)
- 瓜田 【カデン】 melon field, melon patch
- 種なし西瓜 【タネナシスイカ】 seedless watermelon
- 木瓜 【ボケ】 Japanese quince (Chaenomeles speciosa), flowering quince
- 木瓜 【ボケ】 Japanese quince (Chaenomeles speciosa), flowering quince
- 草木瓜 【クサボケ】 dwarf Japanese quince (Chaenomeles japonica), (Japanese) flowering quince, Maule's quince, japonica
Kun reading compounds
- 瓜 【うり】 melon, gourd
- 瓜二つ 【うりふたつ】 exactly alike (in appearance), like two peas in a pod, (practically) identical, spitting image (of), carbon copy (of)
- 毛瓜 【もううり】 Okinawan yellow cucumber
- 赤瓜 【あかもううい】 Okinawan yellow cucumber
Readings
- Japanese names:
- う
- Korean:
- gwa
Spanish
- melón
Portuguese
French
- melon
2973 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
1888 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
305 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
3789 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2626 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1895 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
21371X | Morohashi |
3038 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
3686 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1877 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
2022 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
2662 | 2001 Kanji |
0a6.3 | The Kanji Dictionary |
3-3-2 | SKIP code |
7223.0 | Four corner code |
1-17-27 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
74dc | Unicode hex code |