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(2) Spain (short for 西班牙）：駐西大使 Chin. ambassador to Spain.
西半球 Western Hemisphere;
西部 western region;
西岸 west coast.
(2) Western, pertaining to the Western or gen. foreign world: 西人，西婦，西服，西裝 etc., [xi1ren2], [xi1fu4], [xi1fu2], [xi1zhuang1]↓;
see esp. 西洋 [xi1yang2]↓;
西餐 Western meal;
西式 Western fashion;
for Western music, medicine, see 西樂，西醫, [xi1yUe4], [xi1yi1]↓.
(3) To the west, westwards: 西去 go west.
(4) A surname.
2.西北 [xi1bei3], adj., northwest.
3.西賓 [xi1bin1], n., family tutor, see [xi1xi2]↓, cf. 東家 the host.
4.西伯利亞 [xi1bo2li4ya3], n., Siberia.
5.西部 [xi1bu4], n., (1) western region; (2) (movies) a western.
6.西成 [xi1cheng2], n., (MC) harvest.
7.西垂 [xi1chui2], n., (AC) west side.
8.西法 [xi1fa3], adj., Western method (dry cleaning, etc.).
9.西番蓮 [xi1fan1lian2], n., (bot.) Passiflora caerulea.
10.西方 [xi1fang1], n. & adj., the western world, also (Budd.) referring to after world.
11.西婦 [xi1fu4], n., Western woman.
12.西服 [xi1fu2], n., Western dress.
13.西瓜 [xi1gua1], n., watermelon.
14.西貢 [xi1gong4], n., Saigon.
15.西宮 [xi1gong1], n., “western palace” where ladies-in-waiting lived.
16.西穀米 [xi1gu2mi3], n., sago; 西穀椰子 the sago palm, Sagus rumphii.
17.西紅柿 [xi1hong2shi4], n., tomato.
18.西淨 [xi1jing4], n., (Budd.) western lavatory (as eastern lavatory is called 東淨); see [xi1xU4]↓.
19.西裝 [xi1zhuang1], n., Western of European dress.
20.西曆 [xi1li4], n., the Western or Gregorian Calendar (now generally called 公曆).
21.西米 [xi1mi3], n., sago, see [xi1gu2mi3]↑.
22.西南 [xi1nan2], adj., southwest.
23.西皮 [xi1pi2], n., name of song from 黃陂縣 in Hupei, current in Peking opera (see 皮黃 22.82).
24.西人 [xi1ren2], n., Westerner.
25.西廂記 [xi1xiang1ji4], n., The Western Chamber, a famous Chin. classical novel.
26.西夕 [xi1xi4], n., (AC) old age.
27.西席 [xi1xi2], n., n., see [xi1bin1]↑.
28.西施舌 [xi1shi1she2], n., a small edible shellfish with elongated “tongue” or valve.
29.西序 [xi1xU4], n., the western wing of Buddhist monastery.
30.西臺 [xi1tai2], n., Suhng Dyn. name for the Censorate (御史臺).
31.西天 [xi1tian1], n., Buddhist paradise, believed to be in the west of China.
32.西崽 [xi1zai3], n., a houseboy or “boy” in the employment of foreigners in China.
33.西字臉 [xi1zi4lian3], n., broad-shaped face, like the character 西.
34.西洋 [xi1yang2], n., “Western ocean,” i.e., Western or from the West (of. shortened to 洋 or to 西): 西洋音樂，畫 Western music, painting; n., 西洋歷史 history of the Western world; 西洋景 peep show (also called 西洋鏡); 西洋參 ginseng grown in the Unite States.
35.西藥 [xi1yao4], n., Western medicine.
36.西醫 [xi1yi1], n., Western doctor.
37.西元 [xi1yUan2], n., A.D. of Christian calendar (now gen. called 公元).
38.西樂 [xi1yUe4], n., Western music.
39.西域 [xi1yU4], n., Turkestan, in region now called 新疆 “Hsinkiang.”