Foreign people are amusing.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
外国人
foreigner
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
foreigner
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 外国人 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 外国人 appears in 48 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Foreigners astound me.
Foreign people intrigue me.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 外国人.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 外国人.
Directly before
- 是外国人9
- 一个外国人6
- 的外国人5
- 对外国人3
- 和外国人2
Directly after
- 外国人很2
- 外国人的2
- 外国人说2
- 外国人来2
- 外国人访问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 外国人
What does 外国人 mean in Chinese?
外国人 (wàiguórén) means foreigner.
How do you pronounce 外国人?
外国人 is pronounced wàiguórén.
Is 外国人 an HSK word?
外国人 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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