东西
Meaning
- thing
- stuff
- person
Measure word
个 gè or 件 jiàn
Example sentence
喝点东西吗？
Want a drink?
Characters in 东西
东 east and 西 west, and yet the word means thing. The compound is genuinely opaque — the popular story about the eastern and western markets of the Tang capital is folk etymology rather than settled fact.