IDENTITY
外wàioutside; foreign
HSK 1Top 250
CORE MEANING
outside; foreign
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.outsideHSK1
- 2.foreignHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 夕evening radical (xī)
- strokes
- 5
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰夕卜
- evening; outside the home
- gives the sound wài (historical)
USAGE
Common words
外面wàimiànoutside
外国wàiguóforeign country
外卖wàimàitakeout
Graded examples
别在外面玩太晚。Bié zài wàimiàn wán tài wǎn.HSK3
Don’t play outside too late.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
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LEARNING
Memory aid
Divining (卜) at night (夕) beyond the door — the outside. (Old: moonlit divination.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #250
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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