东西東西 in English

Measure word

• 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested
• 件 jiàn item; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc attested

Character breakdown

• 东東 dōng east
• 西 xī west

Stroke order

How it used to be written

东

These are the forms of 東, the traditional character: 东 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 18 forms

西

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東晉
• See all 36 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 不要往地上扔任何东西。

  Don't throw anything onto the floor.

• 不要边吃东西边看书。

  Don't eat while reading.

• 世上没有比爱更有价值的东西了。

  Nothing is worth more than love.

• 东西方文化在这个国家融合。

  Cultures of the East and the West meet together in this country.

• 今天我同学看到你们在欧尚买东西。

  Today, my classmate saw you guys shopping at Auchan.

• 他一生中经历过很多东西。

  He had various experiences in his life.

• 他只买对他会有用的东西。

  He only buys things that will be useful to him.

• 他把东西留给了他的儿子。

  He left behind some things for his son.

All example sentences with 东西