Illustration: On a seaside promenade in Japan, a child points straight toward the sun as it sinks halfway below the open-water horizon. A parent follows the pointing finger with their gaze, while their long shadows stretch inland across the paving behind them.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

西にし

nishi

west

Example sentences

  1. 駅えきはホテルの西にしの方ほうにある。

    The station is to the west of the hotel.

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  2. 日ひは西にしに沈しずむ。

    The sun sets in the west.

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  3. 風かぜは西にしから吹ふいている。

    The wind is blowing from the west.

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Kanji in 西

  • 西west; SpainOnセイ・サイ・スKunにし

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