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[quote=TEACHER_ZHANG,419683]Are you a student who is learning Chinese? basically, 东西 have three meanings. 1. means direction "east and west": or "distance from east to west" I think it is not difficult for you understand. 2. means "something", it can be "something to eat", " something to drink", "something to write" etc. the meaning is uncertain, but it has the exactly meaning in a sentence. ex. 她在吃东西。 it means food, something for eating. 他在写东西。 He is writing something, maybe a report, maybe homework, maybe a story, we don't know exactly. It depends the situation and scence. 小军有一些东西要交给警察。Xiaojun has something to give to Police, we don't know what they are. 3. means someone or animals, people like or hate. 这个小东西真可爱。means you like it. 这东西还挺管用的。means you thing it is useful. 他不是个东西。means "hate" 这个老狐狸真不是东西!means he is "really bad". 他算什么东西!means he do something badly. [/quote]
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