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东西 (東西)
  • [dōngxi]
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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

东西 [dōngxi]
  1. 1. noun [物品] thing
    你把东西放在这儿吧。
    Why don't you leave your things here.
    今天他买了不少东西
    He did quite a bit of shopping today.
  2. 2. noun [家伙]
    他这个小东西,真滑头!
    He's a slippery character!
  3. 3. noun [与‘什么’一词连用]
    我什么东西也看不见。
    I can't see anything.
    他在大学里没学到什么东西
    He didn't learn anything at university.

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

东西 [dōngxi]
  1. 1. noun thing; stuff
  2. 2. noun (referring to an animal) thing; creature
  3. 3. noun [Offensive] (refering to a person) thing, used as an insult

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

东西 [dōngxi]
  1. 1. 泛指各种事物
    上街买东西去了
    感情这东西,也是可以培养的
  2. 2. 特指使人厌恶喜爱的人或物
    看他那贼眉鼠眼的样子,准不是好东西
    这小东西,是娘的心肝宝贝
  3. 3. 参见"物品"的提示

Examples

东西包起来
wrap things up
你有什么东西要报关吗?
Have you got anything to declare?
凡是他要的东西他都有本领弄到手。
He is resourceful enough to get whatever he is after.
请你给墙报写些东西。不拘形式,文章、诗,都可以。
Please write something for the wall newspaper. Any form will do—poetry or prose.
阁楼上可以藏好多东西
We can store a lot of things in the attic.
这间屋子太小,盛不了这么多东西
The room is too small to hold all these things.
机械地搬用外国的东西是要吃大亏的。
Mechanical copying of things foreign would be disastrous.
他在暗中摸索着,忽然触动了什么东西
Groping in the dark, he suddenly touched something.
拿错东西
take sth. by mistake
他总是一边卖东西一边和顾客搭讪。
While doing business, he would strike up a conversation with his customers.

Word Decomposition


[dōng]
+ 西
[xī]

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