He that hears much and speaks not at all shall be welcome both in bower and hall.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
外人
outsider
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
outsider
02
foreigner
03
stranger
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 外人 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 外人 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 外人.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 外人.
Directly before
- 没有外人1
- 里外人1
- 跟外人1
- 不如外人1
- 遇到外人1
Directly after
- 外人不1
- 外人讲1
- 外人想像中1
- 外人欺辱1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 外人
What does 外人 mean in Chinese?
外人 (wàirén) means outsider.
How do you pronounce 外人?
外人 is pronounced wàirén.
Is 外人 an HSK word?
外人 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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