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老外

lǎowài

(coll.) foreigner (esp. non Asian person)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(coll.) foreigner (esp. non Asian person)

02

layman

03

amateur

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 老外 actually appears in real sentences.

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

他是老外,他听不懂我们说的话。tā shì lǎo wài, tā tīng bù dǒng wǒ men shuō de huà。

He's a foreigner. He doesn't understand what we're saying.

幸运的是大家都明白了这个老外的意思，知道我只是闹笑话而友好地对我笑一下。xìng yùn de shì dà jiā dōu míng bái le zhè ge lǎo wài de yì si， zhī dào wǒ zhǐ shì nào xiào huà ér yǒu hǎo dì duì wǒ xiào yī xià。

Fortunately, everybody understood what this foreigner meant, knew I was only making a fool of myself, and laughed at me.

你怎么跟老外解释咱们发票这种东西？nǐ zěn me gēn lǎo wài jiě shì zán men fā piào zhè zhǒng dōng xī？

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 老外.

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

Directly before

  • 这个老外1
  • 是老外1
  • 跟老外1

Directly after

  • 老外的1
  • 老外解释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 老外

What does 老外 mean in Chinese?

老外 (lǎowài) means (coll.) foreigner (esp. non Asian person).

How do you pronounce 老外?

老外 is pronounced lǎowài.

Is 老外 an HSK word?

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

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