西瓜 (xī guā)

Character breakdown

• 西 (Xī) · 6 strokes

  西 was written two different ways in ancient scripts: (1) a pictograph of a bird's nest, and (2) a variant of the phonetically similar 囟.

• 瓜 (guā) · 5 strokes

  Depicts a melon hanging from a vine.