西方
xī fāng 1–1
the West; the Occident; Western countries
- Characters
- 2
- 西 · 方
- Syllables
- 2
- xī fāng
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 4,391
Part of speech: s,f
Character by character
- 西xī6 strokesHSK 1west(ern); westward; occident; Kangxi radical 146
- 方fāng4 strokesHSK 1a square, rectangle; a region; local
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 西方. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 东西dōng xiHSK 1
thing; stuff; person
- 地方dì fangHSK 1
area; place; space; room; territory
- 方式fāng shìHSK 3
way; manner; style; mode; pattern
- 方法fāng fǎHSK 2
method; way; means
- 方面fāng miànHSK 2
respect; aspect; field; side
- 西xīHSK 1
west
- 方fāngHSK 4
square; power or involution (math.); upright; honest; fair and square; direction; side; party (to a contract, dispute etc); place; method; prescription (medicine); just when; only or just; classifier for square things; abbr. for square or cubic meter
- 对方duì fāngHSK 3
the other person; the other side; the other party
- 方向fāng xiàngHSK 2
direction; orientation
- 方便fāng biànHSK 2
convenient; suitable; to facilitate; to make things easy; having money to spare; (euphemism) to relieve oneself
- 方案fāng ànHSK 4
plan; program (for action etc); proposal; proposed bill
- 双方shuāng fāngHSK 3
bilateral; both sides; both parties involved
- 南方nán fāngHSK 2
south; the southern part of the country; the South
- 西部xī bùHSK 3
western part
- 官方guān fāngHSK 4
government; official (approved or issued by an authority)
- 另一方面lìng yī fāng miànHSK 3
on the other hand; another aspect
- 北方běi fāngHSK 2
north; the northern part a country; China north of the Yellow River
- 东方dōng fāngHSK 2
east
- 前方qián fāngHSK 6
ahead; the front
- 西装xī zhuāngHSK 5
suit; Western-style clothes
- 西南xī nánHSK 2
southwest
- 西北xī běiHSK 2
northwest
- 处方chǔ fāngHSK 7
medical prescription; to write out a prescription; (fig.) recommendation; advice
- 上方shàng fāngHSK 7
place above (it); upper part (of it)