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外 wài

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)
wài adjective outside; exterior
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: bāhya, Japanese: ge (BCSD '外', p. 311; DJBT '外', p. 436; MW 'bāhya'; SH '外', p. 184)

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自我观照但求诸己自我更新不断净化自我实践不假外求自我离相不计内外(自我觀照但求諸己自我更新不斷淨化自我實踐不假外求自我離相不計內外) Reflect upon oneself, and seek the cause in oneself. Reinvent oneself, and continue to purify oneself. Live up to oneself, and never rely on others. Detach from oneself, and never discriminate.
六师外道; 1. 珊阇耶毘罗胝子 2. 阿耆多翅舍钦婆罗 3. 末伽梨拘舍梨 4. 富兰那迦叶 5. 迦罗鸠驮迦旃延 6. 尼干陀若提子(六師外道; 1. 珊闍耶毘羅胝子 2. 阿耆多翅舍欽婆羅 3. 末伽梨拘舍梨 4. 富蘭那迦葉 5. 迦羅鳩馱迦旃延 6. 尼乾陀若提子) Six Non-Buddhist Schools: 1. The Sanjaya-Vairatiputra Sect; 2. The Ajita-Kesakambala Sect; 3. The Maskari-Gosaliputra Sect; 4. The Purana-Kasyapa Sect; 5. The Kakuda-Katyayana Sect; 6. The Nirgrantha-Jnatiputra Sect
善知识; 1. 外护善知识 2. 同行善知识 3. 教授善知识(善知識; 1. 外護善知識 2. 同行善知識 3. 教授善知識) Dharma Friends: 1. good Dharma friends who give; 2. good Dharma friends who share in practice; 3. good Dharma friends who teach
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Scroll 2 Commentary on the Hundred Treatise 百論疏 — count: 226
Scroll 3 Commentary on the Hundred Treatise 百論疏 — count: 185
Scroll 1 Commentary on the Hundred Treatise 百論疏 — count: 128
Scroll 1 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 106
Scroll 2 Śatakaśāstra (Hundred Treatise) 百論 — count: 92
Scroll 2 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 92
Scroll 1 Commentary on the Dvādaśanikāyaśāstra 十二門論疏 — count: 91
Scroll 7 Notes on the Viṁśatikāvṛtti 成唯識論述記 — count: 87
Scroll 1 Si Fen Lu Shan Fan Bu Que Xingshi Chao 四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 — count: 84
Scroll 2 Notes on the Viṁśatikāvṛtti 成唯識論述記 — count: 84

Collocations

制外 (製外) 制外怨敵 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 22
外色 (外色) 內無色想觀外色 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 8 — count: 18
观外 (觀外) 觀外身 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 17
外见 (外見) 內思色外見色 — Sutra on the Law of Ten Rewards in the Dirghagama (Chang Ahan Shi Bao Fa Jing) 長阿含十報法經, Scroll 2 — count: 13
山外 (山外) 善見山外次有阿抄波山 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 6 — count: 12
外身 (外身) 外身身觀 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 11
外门 (外門) 忉利天外門 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 3 — count: 5
外敌 (外敵) 威德降外敵 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
皮肉外 (皮肉外) 除去皮肉外諸不淨 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 12 — count: 4
宫外 (宮外) 捨出宮外 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 19 — count: 4