I'm a stranger here.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
外地人
stranger
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
stranger
02
outsider
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 外地人 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 外地人 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
"How long does it take to get to Vienna on foot?" "Sorry, I'm a stranger here."
So-called regional specialities are things prized by out-of-towners but spurned by locals.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 外地人.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 外地人.
Directly before
- 是外地人1
- 的外地人1
- 就是外地人1
Directly after
- 外地人奉之为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 外地人
What does 外地人 mean in Chinese?
外地人 (wàidìrén) means stranger.
How do you pronounce 外地人?
外地人 is pronounced wàidìrén.
Is 外地人 an HSK word?
外地人 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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