It is dark outside.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
外头
outside; outdoors
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
outside; outdoors
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 外头 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 外头 appears in 11 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom is out shoveling snow.
Tom is playing outdoors.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 外头.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 外头.
Directly before
- 在外头3
- 如果外头1
- 上外头1
- 因为外头1
- 最近外头1
Directly after
- 外头还有1
- 外头打网球1
- 外头太黑1
- 外头玩儿1
- 外头等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 外头
What does 外头 mean in Chinese?
外头 (wàitou) means outside; outdoors.
How do you pronounce 外头?
外头 is pronounced wàitou.
Is 外头 an HSK word?
外头 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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