Word Meaning 東西

とうざい touzai

東西 is read as とうざい (touzai) and means east and west.

Meaning

English

  1. east and west
  2. Orient and Occident
  3. East and West
  4. ladies and gentlemen!
  5. your attention, please!
  6. roll-up, roll-up

Reading

Kana

とうざい

Romaji

touzai

Writing Variants

  • 東西 ひがしにし higashinishi

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 14 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N5 Jōyō Grade 2 Kanken 9級 Antonyms 南北 Rank 408 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

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東西東西

とざいとうざい

ladies and gentlemen!

東は東西は西

ひがしはひがしにしはにし

East is East, and West is West

東西南北

とうざいなんぼく

east, west, south and north

東奔西走

とうほんせいそう

busying oneself about (something)

東西冷戦

とうざいれいせん

Cold War (between the East and the West)

東西古今

とうざいここん

all times and places

東西屋

とうざいや

town crier

無東西

むとうざい

itinerant monk

古今東西

ここんとうざい

all times and places

西高東低

せいこうとうてい

high barometric pressure to the west, low pressure to the east

西東京科学大学

にしとうきょうかがくだいがく

Nishitoukyōkagaku University

Example Sentences

2

Cultures of the East and the West are mixed in this country.

The Balkan Mountain range runs across Bulgaria from west to east.