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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

外遇

wàiyù

extramarital affair

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

extramarital affair

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 外遇 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 外遇 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我觉得汤姆有外遇。wǒ jué de tāng mǔ yǒu wài yù。

I think Tom's cheating.

他搞外遇。tā gǎo wài yù。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 外遇.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 外遇.

Directly before

  • 有外遇1
  • 搞外遇1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 外遇

What does 外遇 mean in Chinese?

外遇 (wàiyù) means extramarital affair.

How do you pronounce 外遇?

外遇 is pronounced wàiyù.

Is 外遇 an HSK word?

外遇 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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