せいよう
Meanings
Noun
1. the West; the Occident; Western countries
Pitch accent
いよう
Composed of
Spain; Spanish (language)
Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); ocean; sea; foreign; Western
Used in vocabulary (55 in total)
Atlantic Ocean
western style-house (esp. those built before WWII)
Western medicine
Examples (7 in total)
He likes Western culture.
They are much better than Western baths.
Japan needed contact with the Western countries.
Yukichi Fukuzawa introduced Western ideas into Japan.
Many western customs have taken root in Japan.
Some people claim that there are no more heroes in the Western world.
The Japanese have tried to learn the Western way of thinking and feeling for the past hundred years.