Level III of XX on the frequency path
Frequency rank 372 / 2,608
Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.
More common than 図 (Diagram), less common than 百 (Hundred).
The character 西 (west) looks like a setting sun sinking into a nest or basket — the sun drops into the horizon in the west, nestled in the earth at day's end.
西 is rank 372 of 2,608 in published Japanese.
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