西装 (xī zhuāng)

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.

• 装 (zhuāng) · 12 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 衣 represents the meaning and 壮 represents the sound. Simplified form of 裝.