东西

東西traditional

HSK 1#226 by frequencyradical 一

dōng xi["n","f","nr"]

thing; stuff; person

dōng xī

east and west

Measure words: 个, 件

Examples

她去买东西。

She's going out to buy some things.

这是什么东西？

What the hell is this?

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.