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Concepts using this kanji
east and west
west side
Kansai (region comprising Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe and surrounding prefectures)
western Japan (usu. Chūbu region and westward)
Western Europe
western part
Atlantic Ocean
southwest
northwest
the West
West Germany (1949-1990)
west entrance
western direction
Common Era
watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)
south-west
north-west
Siberia
Malaysia
north-northwest
westering sun
New Zealand
high barometric pressure to the west, low pressure to the east
Russia
France
Western person
Indonesia
Switzerland
west-northwest
Spain
west wind
westerlies
person from the Kansai region
Mexico
western regions of China
Kansai dialect
westward trip
Brazil
Japan and Spain
... and westward
western mountains
western part of Japan (esp. Kyushu, but ranging as far east as Kinki)
western capital
west of
middle west
West Africa
Visigoth
West Asia
Western Sahara
western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)
pung (or kong) of west tiles when west is both the round wind and one's seat wind (meld)
West Indies
not knowing one's way around
Xi'an (China)
western lands (China, India, etc.)
due west
taking a western route
Western-style
west round
western side house (in traditional palatial-style architecture)
going west
Spanish-Japanese
Japanese-Spanish (e.g. dictionary)
Seizan sect (of Pure Land Buddhism)
western army (e.g. in a civil war)
northwestern part
facing west
twilight
west player
proceeding west
westernmost
west longitude
Shanxi University
Western religion
west-southwest
Westerner
Northwest University
not knowing one's bearings
southwest Japan (southwest of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line)
western citadel
all times and places
Seibu
Seibu Lions (Japanese pro baseball team)
Guangxi University
(in the) Kobe area
flowing west (e.g. of a river)
Western Church
westernization
East is East, and West is West
ladies and gentlemen!
western hemisphere
southwestern part
Kansai region (center-west area of Japan comprising Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding prefectures)
Xi'an Incident (involving the arrest and confinement of Chiang Kai-shek; December 1936)
Seiyū
Kansai University
Spanish (language)
Tōzai Line
east, west, south and north
Shanxi Province (China)
Western Zhou dynasty (of China; ca. 1046-771 BCE)
west coast
town crier
Satsuma Rebellion (1877)
western limit (esp. of the distribution of a plant or animal)
West Bank
Spanish-American War (1898)
going to Spain
Nishikyūshuu University
Southwest school (of neo-Kantianism)
Southwest German school (of Neo-Kantianism)
Saikaidō (alt. name for the Kyūshū region)
Kyoto Gaidainishi
Kansai Electric Power
North Atlantic
Kansai Medical University (abbr)
Josai University
thirty-three temples in the Kinki area containing statues of Kannon (Avalokitesvara)
Western civilization
Tibet
Western Indian Ocean
Nishi-Nippon City Bank
westerly
American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius)
Western (film genre)
in all parts of the world
leek (Allium porrum)
(European) gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa)
horseradish (Armoracia rusticana)
buttercup squash (Cucurbita maxima)
common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
Western affectations
Cold War (between the East and the West)
Western Xia (1038-1227)
Western Front (of WWI)
Caspian plover (Charadrius asiaticus)
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