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外
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Definitions
- 1. outside
- 2. in addition
- 3. foreign
- 4. external
Example Sentences
1 shown外 質！
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 外
beyond the earth
external force
in addition
inside and out
foreign company
bunion; hallux valgus
to serve (a sentence) outside prison (law)
(sports) wild card (loanword)
outsourcing
superficial wound
unexpected
external
over and above (some amount)
surgery (branch of medicine)
to export
foreigner
domestic and international
to send out
sister's son's wife
right-hand side (of a machine)
exceptionally
Waipu Township in Taichung County 臺中縣|台中县[tái zhōng xiàn], Taiwan
while the connoisseur recognizes the artistry, the layman simply enjoys the show
the outside; (attributive) external
outer side
Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU)
the outside world
outer transcendence (perfection through the agency of God)
outside
(another nation's) external propaganda
foreign enterprise
circumscribed circle (of a polygon)
foreign market
outward appearance
external oblique muscle (sides of the chest)
gentile
outer area (of a place that has an inner area)
outside (also pr. [wài mian] for this sense)
out-of-court (settlement)
strong in appearance but weak in reality (idiom)
Apocrypha
outsourcing
reports from foreign news agencies
xenophobic
to leak (usually secret information)
to make an official visit (often abroad)
Council on Foreign Relations (US policy think tank)
to exclude
to pay no attention to outside matters
plastic surgeon
formally establish diplomatic relations
in vitro fertilization
Beijing International Studies University (BISU)
exterior product
ultraviolet (ray)
orienteering
infrared guided missile
outside
at all times and in all places (idiom)
bow legs
Sichuan International Studies University (SISU)
outside (a country's) borders
to shock the whole world
surrounding
export-oriented (economic model)
external
extra
(newspaper) extra
good-looking and intelligent (idiom)
overtone (music)
infrared ray
Foreign Minister
foreign policy
apart from this
Outer Mongolia
parts of the country other than where one is
Transcaucasia, aka the South Caucasus
to get involved in things which are not one's business
daughter's daughter
foreign relations
(polite) my husband
department of foreign languages
not to get involved
extracurricular
outskirts
foreign (currency) exchange
external irradiation
Don't spread abroad the shame of the family, don't believe rumors lightly. (idiom)
extension (semantics)
to be pleased beyond one's expectations (idiom)
peripherals
foreign affairs
to resist foreign aggression
to tell others (a secret)
Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC)
external link
foreigner's certificate of residence
to forbid sb to go out
layman
Waipu Township in Taichung County 臺中縣|台中县[tái zhōng xiàn], Taiwan
see 弦外之音[xián wài zhī yīn]
to extrapolate
to release for medical treatment (of a prisoner)
non-party members
accident
outsider
China Foreign Affairs University
to outsource
foreign (country)
bokeh (photography)
an introduced species
maternal grandfather (i.e. mother's father)
lateral sulcus or Sylvian fissure (neuroanatomy)
ectoderm (cell lineage in embryology)
facade
foreign worker
outdoor education program
men go out to work and women stay at home (idiom)
additional
loanword
(military) line of troops encircling an enemy position
foreign affairs
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
to treat sb with the formal courtesy accorded to a host or a guest
greenhorn
to feel animosity toward foreigners or outsiders
splayed feet
diplomat
stranger
imported product
overseas foreign direct investment (OFDI)
Daowai district of Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[hā ěr bīn] in Heilongjiang
University of International Business and Economics
foreign traveler
nothing else but
(literary) father-in-law
look
unspoken implication (idiom)
foreign relations
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Qing Dynasty
(of a married person) interest in a third person
lit. outside-flexible, inside-firm (idiom)
figure
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
diplomatic asylum
foreign investment
(botany) lemma
a woman is born to leave her family (idiom)
to fawn on foreigners; to pander to foreign powers
domestic and international
foreign currency
foreign debt
exception
overseas Chinese
space alien; extraterrestrial
foreign guest
diplomatic crisis
outflow of capital
outdoor
robe
outer room
nickname
(derog.) China's foreign propaganda machine (esp. since c. 2009)
great-grandfather (mother's grandfather)
ultraviolet light
off campus
see 外地[wài dì]
outside the sphere of one's consideration
outside (a group etc)
a stranger
surgery
outside the country
orthopedic surgery
foreign languages
(dialect) maternal grandfather
see 說是一回事，做又是另外一回事|说是一回事，做又是另外一回事[shuō shì yī huí shì , zuò yòu shì lìng wài yī huí shì]
exocrine; external secretion (e.g. saliva)
surface coat
soft on the inside despite one's hard shell
(biochemistry) lectin
lit. don't let one's own fertile water flow into others' field
outer courtyard
abroad
to think nothing of doing sth (idiom)
lookism
extra income
mother's mother
neurosurgery
to work against the interests of sb one derives support from
inside and out
external
to lend (sth other than money)
positive influence, effect that people's doings or behavior have on others (society)
lateral sulcus or Sylvian fissure (neuroanatomy)
magnanimous on the outside, but hateful on the inside (idiom)
infrared spectrum
see 婚外情[hūn wài qíng]
foreigner
apart from
metal cover
(idiom) new problems arise unexpectedly
extragalactic nebula
take-out (fast food)
additionality (economics)
extramarital affair
bunion
foreign investment
besides
foreign language
foreign language (written)
foreign investor
brain drain
(of a woman) to marry a non-local or foreigner
mere worldly possessions
State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE)
no use to tell others
beyond the pass, i.e. the region north and east of Shanhai Pass 山海關|山海关[shān hǎi guān] or the region west of Jiayu Pass 嘉峪關|嘉峪关[jiā yù guān] or both
see 弦外之音[xián wài zhī yīn]
(idiom) however good sth is, there is always sth better
external (i.e. not built-in 內置|内置[nèi zhì])
lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom); fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
neutralism
sister's daughter
great-grandmother (mother's grandmother)
injury
beyond the topmost clouds (idiom)
(coll.) daughter's son
to resist foreign aggression and pacify the interior of the country (idiom)
extroverted
additive
outside the door
Saying is one thing, doing quite another (idiom)
to revere everything foreign and pander to overseas powers (idiom); blind worship of foreign goods and ideas
see 人外有人，天外有天[rén wài yǒu rén , tiān wài yǒu tiān]
foreign ministry (e.g. of Japan or Korea)
Sino-foreign
Outer Manchuria
all in all
foreign-exchange reserves
exoskeleton (the carapace of insects, crabs etc)
visitors from outer space
exogenous
xenophobia
exception(s)
uneven
besides
unfettered and beyond the law (idiom); evading retribution
field work
international and domestic
concerning foreigners or foreign affairs
layman
overseas Chinese
out
AED (automated external defibrillator)
outer skin
a horse cannot get fat without an extra ration, a man cannot get rich without an extra income (idiom)
lit. the elbow turns outward (idiom)
CCP central committee's external affairs department (i.e. Chinese communist party's foreign office)
extra income
outdoors
infrared (ray)
countryside
Daowai district of Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[hā ěr bīn] in Heilongjiang
foreign policy
foreigner
to make extra money
Foreign Affairs Office (at a university)
exocrine gland
daughter's son
diplomatic immunity
envelope
to go out
within and without the borders
plastic surgery
to apply externally
foreign minister
internal disunity dissolves at the threat of an invasion from outside (idiom)
foreign trade
add-on (software)
outer space
wholly foreign-owned enterprise (WFOE) (form of legal entity in China)
outdoor
(of a restaurant) to provide a takeout or home delivery meal
general emergency (or \off-site emergency\) (nuclear facility emergency classification)
outer ring (road or rail line)
loan idiom
from the inside to the outside
foreign aid
(of a person) beautiful inside and out
outside the body
foreign policy
to lock one's door and refuse to see sb
foreign worker
external form
free-range (breeding livestock or poultry)
external link (on website)
foreign trade
a general planning in the seclusion of his tent is able to determine the outcome of the distant battle (idiom)
Tianjin Foreign Studies University
Outer Manchuria
external plasma membrane
foreign affairs office
alien
ultraviolet light
(of liquid) to spill out; to overflow
foreign news media
(literary) foreign aggression
external auditory meatus
outflow
outer city wall
to be trusted both at home and abroad (idiom)
Dalian University of Foreign Languages
one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
internal trouble and outside aggression (idiom); in a mess both domestically and abroad
sister's son
(coll.) mother's mother
vulva
foreign news media
traffic accident
heterodyne (electronics)
sophisticated, worldly person
extramarital
The Scholars, Qing dynasty novel by Wu Jingzi 吳敬梓|吴敬梓[wú jìng zǐ], an extended satire on the Imperial Examination system
outer clothing
when the enemies come face to face, their eyes blaze with hatred (idiom)
outside the law
thousand miles distant
extramarital affair
loanword
overseas
the Shanghai Bund or Waitan
to flee abroad
outside world
extroverted (personality)
outer ear
famous at home and abroad
outer corner of the eye
surgeon
to go abroad
shin
patriotic overseas compatriot
extrapolation (math.)
coat
the Internet outside the GFW 防火長城|防火长城[fáng huǒ cháng chéng]
voice-over
pheromone
outward
(coll.) mother's father
external diameter (including thickness of the wall)
attached externally (e.g. fuel tank)
contrary to expectation
surgery
crowdsourcing
outdoors; outside
sister's daughter's husband
gilded exterior, shabby and ruined on the inside (idiom)
outside of a city
diplomatic immunity
brain drain
unofficial biography (as opposed to official dynastic biography)
foreign businessman
internal trouble and outside aggression (idiom); in a mess both domestically and abroad
extragalactic star system
foreign aggression
not exposed
to act from inside in coordination with attackers outside
extracellular fluid
extracurricular reading material
apocryphal writings
the \good-looks club\: people who attach great importance to a person's appearance (pun on 外貿協會|外贸协会 foreign trade association)
Xi'an International Studies University (XISU)
turned out other than expected (idiom); unexpected
exposed
see 桃花源[táo huā yuán]
see 桃花源[táo huā yuán]
in the wider world there are people more talented than oneself (idiom)
especially
foreign affairs
ultraviolet ray
foreign capital
inside and outside
external
Shanghai International Studies University (SISU)
to give no thought to
foreign (i.e. of foreign nationality)
outer layer
to give an extra subsidy, or bonus etc
to extrapolate
see 胳膊肘朝外拐[gē bo zhǒu cháo wài guǎi]
offshore
foreign language
Taoist external alchemy
(coll.) foreigner (esp. non Asian person)
to go out
Foreign Secretary
diplomatic
Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC)
foreign edition (of a newspaper)
lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom)
outer
ultraviolet ray
on-site operations (e.g. surveying)
extravehicular activity (outside space vehicle)
(math.) alternate exterior angles
another part of the country
external
negative influence, effect that people's doings or behavior have on others (society)
outside
diplomat
outer space
beyond expectation (idiom); unexpected
not beyond the scope of
profile
see 開掛|开挂[kāi guà]
Chinese, math & English (school subjects)
diplomacy
diplomatic immunity
to coordinate outside and inside offensives (idiom)
lateral malleolus
minister of foreign affairs