Ax=bSomeone is going to have to explain to me why 东西 means "thing" but somehow also means "east-west"????
tautologico@melissawm my Chinese teacher said it kinda implied "everything between east and west", that is, "things"
@melissawm also Chinese has other words that are similar, like "size" being "大小" (the characters mean "large" and "small" in isolation) and "how many" being "多少" ("many" and "few")
@tautologico 😅 I had not made those connections yet!