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西
xī
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- pinyin
- xī
- simplified
- 西
- traditional
- 西
1 · noun (direction)
west
四个主要方位之一，与东相对。
Lowercase xi1 means west here, not the West or an abbreviation for Spain.
We set off from the village and kept walking west.
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我们从村子出发，一直向西走。
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