This extraterrestrial tree is blue.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
外星
alien
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
alien
02
extraterrestrial
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 外星 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 外星 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
This extraterrestrial tree is blue.
This extraterrestrial tree is blue.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 外星.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 外星.
Directly before
- 这棵外星2
- 了外星1
- 来自外星1
Directly after
- 外星的2
- 外星生物1
- 外星树是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 外星
What does 外星 mean in Chinese?
外星 (wàixīng) means alien.
How do you pronounce 外星?
外星 is pronounced wàixīng.
Is 外星 an HSK word?
外星 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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