Character Details
| things; thing/anything | Ascii: — | w539 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 东西 | dōngxi | dawng-tsee | 1+5 | 不 (not) + 同 (冂 enclosure + 一 one + 口 mouth) | 东西 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - I'm tired of eating the same food every day | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; noun‑noun | 东 (一 + 日 sun) + 西 (西 west radical) | ||||||||||
| East‑west (东西) — goods traded across directions. | |||||||||||