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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

里外

lǐwài

inside and out

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

inside and out

02

or so

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 里外 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 里外 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

他把衣服里外穿反了。tā bǎ yī fú lǐ wài chuān fǎn le。

He had his clothes on inside out.

他将袜子的里外穿反了。tā jiāng wà zi de lǐ wài chuān fǎn le。

He had his socks on inside out.

你的背心里外反了,来翻出来。nǐ de bèi xīn lǐ wài fǎn le, lái fān chū lái。

You need to reverse your vest. It's inside-out!

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 里外.

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

Directly before

  • 的里外1
  • 衣服里外1
  • 背心里外1

Directly after

  • 里外穿2
  • 里外反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 里外

What does 里外 mean in Chinese?

里外 (lǐwài) means inside and out.

How do you pronounce 里外?

里外 is pronounced lǐwài.

Is 里外 an HSK word?

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

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