外 wài
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noun
outside
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '外' 1; Unihan '外') -
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) -
adjective
external; outer
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '外' 1; NCCED '外' 1; Unihan '外') -
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') -
noun
exterior; outer surface
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '外' 2) -
noun
a remote place
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '外' 5) -
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) -
noun
husband
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Term used by the husband's wife (Kroll 2015 '外' 7) -
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) -
verb
to be extra; to be additional
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '外' v 2; NCCED '外' 4) -
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) -
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) -
verb
to drift apart; to become estranged
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 疏远 (Guoyu '外' v 1) -
verb
to betray; to forsake
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 背叛 (Guoyu '外' v 3) -
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)
Contained in
- 事外国沙门高座为师(事外國沙門高座為師) He served the foreign śramaṇa Gaozuo, taking him as his teacher.
- 外道问圣大乘法无我义经(外道問聖大乘法無我義經) Nairātmyaparipṛcchānirdeśa; Wai Dao Wen Sheng Dasheng Fa Wuwo Yi Jing
- 外境 external realm; external objects
- 先尼外道 Srenika
- 露形外道 acelaka; Digambara
- 教外别传(教外別傳) transmission apart from teachings ; transmission outside of written teachings
- 外参(外參) Visiting Monastic
- 外道六师(外道六師) the six teachers
Also contained in
国外市场 、 外孙子 、 外带 、 外表 、 外敷 、 外衣 、 外贸 、 外交部长 、 交通意外 、 国内外 、 门外 、 外科学 、 外交风波 、 员外 、 强权外交 、 里应外合 、 分外 、 海外赤子 、 外踝 、 外加剂 、 外层空间 、 外文 、 外资企业 、 外商 、 外甥媳妇 、 外太空 、 对外政策 、 外侧裂 、 震惊中外 、 外典写作 、 外向 、 道外区 、 外心 、 外劳 、 外郭城 、 外乡人 、 境内外 、 墙外道 、 诚中形外 、 外媒 、 外来人 、 外宽内忌 、 曾外祖母
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- Scroll 2 Commentary on the Hundred Treatise 百論疏 — count: 225
- 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 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 92
- Scroll 2 Śatakaśāstra (Hundred Treatise) 百論 — 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 Śatakaśāstra (Hundred Treatise) 百論 — count: 84
- Scroll 1 Si Fen Lu Shan Fan Bu Que Xingshi Chao 四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 — 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
- 外怨敌 (外怨敵) 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
- 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: 15
- 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
- 外身 (外身) 外身身觀 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 11
- 外敌 (外敵) 威德降外敵 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
- 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
- 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