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对外

duìwài

external

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

external

02

foreign

03

pertaining to external or foreign (affairs)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 对外 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 对外 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

这个房间没有对外窗,全靠冷气维持空气流通。zhè ge fáng jiān méi yǒu duì wài chuāng, quán kào lěng qì wéi chí kōng qì liú tōng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

新成立的公司尚未申请统编,暂时无法进行对外交易。xīn chéng lì de gōng sī shàng wèi shēn qǐng tǒng biān, zàn shí wú fǎ jìn xíng duì wài jiāo yì。

No published English translation for this sentence.

往后对外回应与声明用字遣词将更加谨慎,务求每一段文字皆能清楚无误地传达本公司立场,避免因表达不周而造成各界困扰。wǎng hòu duì wài huí yìng yǔ shēng míng yòng zì qiǎn cí jiāng gèng jiā jǐn shèn, wù qiú měi yī duàn wén zì jiē néng qīng chǔ wú wù dì chuán dá běn gōng sī lì chǎng, bì miǎn yīn biǎo dá bù zhōu ér zào chéng gè jiè kùn rǎo。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 对外.

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

Directly before

  • 进行对外1
  • 没有对外1
  • 往后对外1

Directly after

  • 对外交易1
  • 对外窗1
  • 对外回应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 对外

What does 对外 mean in Chinese?

对外 (duìwài) means external.

How do you pronounce 对外?

对外 is pronounced duìwài.

Is 对外 an HSK word?

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

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