She's trying on a coat.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
外衣
outer clothing
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
outer clothing
02
semblance
03
appearance
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 外衣 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 外衣 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
You'd better wear a sweater under your jacket.
He hung his jacket on the coat stand.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 外衣.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 外衣.
Directly before
- 的外衣2
- 在外衣1
- 一件外衣1
Directly after
- 外衣里1
- 外衣挂1
- 外衣之下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 外衣
What does 外衣 mean in Chinese?
外衣 (wàiyī) means outer clothing.
How do you pronounce 外衣?
外衣 is pronounced wàiyī.
Is 外衣 an HSK word?
外衣 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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