There's a cold draught coming in through the door.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
门外
outside the door
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
outside the door
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 门外 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 门外 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Everything outside is fly-posted again.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 门外.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 门外.
Directly before
- 从门外1
- 家门外1
- 店门外1
Directly after
- 门外又1
- 门外进来1
- 门外守候1
- 门外不停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 门外
What does 门外 mean in Chinese?
门外 (ménwài) means outside the door.
How do you pronounce 门外?
门外 is pronounced ménwài.
Is 门外 an HSK word?
门外 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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