外
Meanings
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- 1.outside
- 2.in addition
- 3.foreign
- 4.external
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Wiktionary
- 1.out; outside; external
- 2.beyond; above; in addition to; other than; except
- 3.other; foreign; alien (not of one's own family, clan, locality, school, country, etc.)
- 4.foreign country
- 5.to alienate; to other; to exclude; to distance
- 6.relatives of one's mother, sister or daughter
- 7.additional
- 8.unofficial
- 9.as much as
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ŋʷaːds): semantic 卜 + phonetic 月 (OC *ŋod). According to 学研漢和大字典 (Gakken Kanwa Dai Jiten), it is also an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意); 月 originally represents a crescent moon (i.e. the moon with part “missing” to the observer). The character is thus interpreted as representing divination based on the partial phase of the moon, implying the remaining visible part of the moon is the moon's ‘outside’. In oracle bone script, 外 was written identical to 卜, but they were distinguished by the fact that 卜 has a horizontal bar extending to the inside of the tortoise shell, while 外 has a horizontal bar extending to the outside.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
湯姆在國外。
Tom is out of the country.
湯姆在國外。
Tom's out of the country.
你常常外食嗎？
Do you eat out often?
內用還是外帶?
For here, or to go?
我收集外國硬幣。
I collect foreign coins.
他希望到國外去。
He hopes to go abroad.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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