㢴
xī
(ancient form of 西) the west
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+38B4 |
Shuowen | “西，鳥在巢上，象形。日在西方而鳥棲，故因以為東西之西。” |
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