English: west Spain	On-Yomi: セイ サイ ス	Kun-Yomi: にし いり ひし むら

Bushu (Radical) Info:
襾 (ア, け, にし) – cover; place on top of; west
西 (セイ, サイ, ス, にし, いり, ひし, むら) – west; Spain

Henshall Mnemonic: sun falls in west like drop from wine press

Levels: JLPT N5 | JLPT 4 (old) | Grade 2
Frequency: #259 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:

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JLPT N5 Words

• 西   [にし]
  (n) west   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N4 Words

• 西洋   [せいよう]
  (n) the west; Western countries   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N2 Words

• 西暦   [せいれき]
  (n) Christian Era; anno domini (A.D.)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 東西   [とうざい]
  (n) (1) East and West; (2) whole country; (3) Orient and Occident; (4) Your attention, please!   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 関西   [かんさい]
  Kansai (south-western half of Japan, including Osaka)   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N1 Words

• 西日   [にしび]
  (n) westering sun   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT

• 西部   [せいぶ]
  (n) the west; western part; the West   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 西風   [にしかぜ]
  (n) west wind   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 西方   [せいほう]
  (n) western direction   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 西洋人   [せいようじん]
  (n) Western people   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 南西   [なんせい]
  (n) southwest   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 大西洋   [たいせいよう]
  Atlantic Ocean   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 北西   [ほくせい]
  (n) northwest   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 西ドイツ   [にしドイツ]
  West Germany   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 西瓜   [すいか]
  (n) watermelon   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 西欧   [せいおう]
  (n) Western Europe   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 西口   [にしぐち]
  (n) west entrance   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 西側   [にしがわ]
  (n) west side; west bank   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 西独   [せいどく]
  West Germany   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 西南   [せいなん]
  (n) south-west   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 西日本   [にしにっぽん]
  western Japan   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 西武   [せいぶ]
  (n) Western military   [K] [D] [Jisho]

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Acknowledgments

The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.

NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.

The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.

Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.

The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.

If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.