Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 外
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Hanzi-Trainer
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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 in the road, you are: an outsider. |
Radicals
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夕
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evening | (This radical is similar to moon: 月, but at the evening the moon is not complete and thus only one inner line.) |
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卜
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oracle, mysticism | (This 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.) |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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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 |
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