外 wài
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wài
noun
outside
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '外' 1; Unihan '外') -
wài
preposition
out; outer
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
Notes: May be classified as a localizer because it can be appended to some nouns as a suffix to indicate location. For example, 户外 'outdoors.' (Guoyu '外' n 1; NCCED '外' 1; Sun 2006, loc. 903) -
wài
adjective
external; outer
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '外' 1; NCCED '外' 1; Unihan '外') -
wài
noun
foreign countries
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 外国 (Guoyu '外' n 2; Kroll 2015 '外' 4; NCCED '外' 2; Unihan '外') -
wài
noun
exterior; outer surface
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '外' 2) -
wài
noun
a remote place
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '外' 5) -
wài
prefix
maternal side; wife's family members
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, 外甥 'nephew' - son of mother's sister (Guoyu '外' adj 2; Kroll 2015 '外' 6; NCCED '外' 7) -
wài
noun
husband
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Term used by the husband's wife (Kroll 2015 '外' 7) -
wài
adjective
other
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Other than one's own; in the sense of 别的 or 其他 (Guoyu '外' adj 3; NCCED '外' 3) -
wài
verb
to be extra; to be additional
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '外' v 2; NCCED '外' 4) -
wài
adjective
unofficial; informal; exoteric
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: For example, 外号 'alias' and 外传 'unofficial biography' (Kroll 2015 '外' 3; NCCED '外' 5) -
wài
noun
role of an old man
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Drama
Notes: In Chinese opera (Guoyu '外' n 3; NCCED '外' 8) -
wài
verb
to drift apart; to become estranged
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 疏远 (Guoyu '外' v 1) -
wài
verb
to betray; to forsake
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 背叛 (Guoyu '外' v 3)
Contained in
- 外星 alien; extraterrestrial
- 负外部性(負外部性) negative influence, effect that people's doings or behavior have on others (society)
- 海外华人(海外華人) overseas Chinese
- 保外就医(保外就醫) to release for medical treatment (of a prisoner)
- 域外 outside the country; abroad; foreign; extraterritorial
- 外来(外來) external; foreign; outside
- 国外市场(國外市場) foreign market
- 外圆内方(外圓內方) outside-flexible, inside-firm; velvet glove
- 外交界 diplomatic cirlces
- 门外汉(門外漢) layman
- 外劳(外勞) foreign worker
- 徼外 beyond the border
- 震惊中外(震驚中外) to shock the whole world
- 外踝 lateral malleolus
- 焦外 bokeh
- 外围(外圍) to surround
- 外借 to lend (sth other than money); to borrow
- 外文系(外文係) department of foreign languages; modern languages (college department)
- 外宾(外賓) a foreign guest
- 强权外交(強權外交) use of military power in international politics
- 皮外伤(皮外傷) superficial wound; a bruise
- 家丑不可外传(家醜不可外傳) family shames must not be aired in public
- 外心 interest in a third person ; disloyal disposition ; circumcenter
- 外族 mother's clan ; other peoples
- 去国外(去國外) to go abroad
- 野外镜(野外鏡) field glasses; binoculars
- 不外乎 nothing else but
- 城外 outside of a city
- 郊外 outskirts; wilderness
- 之外 outside; excluding
- 庭外 out-of-court (settlement)
- 金玉其外,败絮其中(金玉其外,敗絮其中) gilded exterior, shabby and ruined on the inside
- 外爷(外爺) maternal grandfather
- 国际外交(國際外交) foreign policy
- 外丹 Taoist external alchemy
- 城市以外 outside the city
- 外币(外幣) foreign currency
- 海外赤子 patriotic overseas compatriot
- 外事处(外事處) Foreign Affairs Office (at a university); Foreign Affairs Department
- 外交风波(外交風波) diplomatic crisis
- 秀外慧中 good-looking and intelligent
Also contained in
外交学院 、 道外区 、 外挂程式 、 外交政策 、 外滩 、 国外内 、 岭外代答 、 杨太真外传 、 大连外国语大学 、 外加附件
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷一百五十七 志第一百一十 選舉三 Volume 157 Treatises 110: Selection and appointment of Officials 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 59
- 卷107下 律曆志三下 Volume 107b Treatise 3: Treatise on Music and Calendars 2 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 47
- 卷17 志第12 律曆中 Volume 17 Treatises 12: Measures and the Calendar 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 47
- 卷四十七 志第二十三 禮一 Volume 47 Treatises 23: Rites 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 39
- 《龜策列傳》 Biographies of Diviners Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 38
- 卷八十三 志第三十三: 選舉三 Volume 83 Treatises 36: Selection of Officials 3 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 35
- 卷105之一 天象志一之一 Volume 105a Treatise 1: Celestial Phenomena 1 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 35
- 卷七十九 志第二十九: 輿服二 Volume 79 Treatises 32: Carriages and Clothes 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 35
- 卷五十八 新五代史考第一 Volume 58 Examination on the New Five Dynasties : New History of the Five Dynasties 新五代史 — count: 34
- 卷107上 律曆志三上 Volume 107a Treatise 3: Treatise on Music and Calendars 1 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 34
Collocations
- 外内 (外內) 外內惡之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 16
- 外取 (外取) 請外取 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 9
- 外夫人 (外夫人) 外夫人不卒 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 6
- 外灾 (外災) 外災不書 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 6
- 外异 (外異) 外異不書 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 5
- 外大夫 (外大夫) 外大夫不卒 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 5
- 外为主 (外為主) 外為主焉爾 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 4
- 通外 (通外) 通外內之言以事君 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 4
- 恃外 (恃外) 恃外也 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 桓公 Lord Huan — count: 3
- 方城外 (方城外) 方城外之縣尹也 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3