Memory phrase for the character: 外

外

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Meaning

outside, foreign, external

Pronunciation

wài

Explanation

 Left: evening 夕 (When the moon 月 is not yet fully there, it is only evening.), right: bifurcation/parting of the ways 卜

Mnemonic
 
If you are in the evening (alone) at a fork of the road, you are: a foreign outsider.

Radicals

夕 eveningThis radical is similar to moon: 月, but at the evening the moon is not complete and thus only one inner line.
卜 oracle, mysticismThis radical is considered to be a simplification of: fortune telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told.). Sometimes it is read as a forking of a road.




 Vocabulary

外国 wài guó  foreign (country)
外边 wài bian  outside; outer surface; abroad; place other than one's home
对外贸易 duì wài mào yì  foreign trade
例外 lì wài  (make an) exception
紫外线 zǐ wài xiàn  ultraviolet ray
外壳 wài ké  envelope; outer shell; hull; cover; case
媚外 mèi wài  to fawn on foreigners; to pander to foreign powers
胳膊肘朝外拐 gē bo zhǒu cháo wài guǎi  the elbow turns the wrong way; to favor an outsider instead of someone on one's own side (idiom)
外骨骼 wài gǔ gé  exoskeleton (the carapace of insects, crabs etc)
信孚中外 xìn fú zhōng wài  to be trusted both at home and abroad (idiom)
外甥 wài shēng  sister's son; wife's sibling's son
外甥 wài shēng  

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