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西 — west

Pinyin
xī · Xī
Strokes
6
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — xī, Xī — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 西: 6 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

西 — 6 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 西

Words with 西 in the HSK syllabus: 12

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 东西dōngxithing; stuff; personHSK 1
  2. 西xīthe West; SpanishHSK 3
  3. 西北xīběiNorthwest ChinaHSK 3
  4. 西方xīfāngthe West; the Occident; Western countriesHSK 3
  5. 西瓜xīguāwatermelonHSK 3
  6. 西南xīnánsouthwestHSK 3
  7. 西部xībùwestern partHSK 4
  8. 西红柿xīhóngshìtomatoHSK 4
  9. 西餐xīcānWestern-style foodHSK 5
  10. 西装xīzhuāngsuit; Western-style clothesHSK 5
  11. 东奔西走dōngbēn-xīzǒuto run this way and that; to rush about busilyHSK 7–9
  12. 东张西望dōngzhāng-xīwàngto look in all directions; to glance aroundHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.