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外

外

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

外 (radical 36 夕+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 弓戈卜 (NIY), four-corner 23200, composition ⿰夕卜)

References

  • KangXi: page 246, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5750
  • Dae Jaweon: page 487, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 860, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5916

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 外

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 外
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋʷaːds) : semantic 卜 + phonetic 月 ‎(OC *ŋod).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 外
Mandarin Beijing /uai⁵¹/
Harbin /uai⁵³/
Tianjin /vai⁵³/
Jinan /vɛ²¹/
Qingdao /vɛ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /uai³¹²/
Xi'an /uai⁴⁴/
Xining /uɛ²¹³/
Yinchuan /vɛ¹³/
Lanzhou /vɛ¹³/
Ürümqi /vai²¹³/
Wuhan /uai³⁵/
Chengdu /uai¹³/
Guiyang /uai²¹³/
Kunming /uæ²¹²/
Nanjing /uae⁴⁴/
Hefei /ue̞⁵³/
/ue⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /vai⁴⁵/
Pingyao /uæ³⁵/
Hohhot /vɛ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ŋa²³/
Suzhou /ŋɑ³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦue̞¹³/
Wenzhou /va²²/
Hui Shexian /uɛ²²/
/ŋa²²/
Tunxi /ŋa¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /uai⁵⁵/
/uai¹¹/
Xiangtan /uai²¹/
Gan Nanchang /uai²¹/
Hakka Meixian /ŋoi⁵³/
Taoyuan /ŋoi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ŋɔi²²/
Nanning /ŋɔi²²/
Hong Kong /ŋɔi²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /gue²²/
/gua²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ŋuɔi²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kuɛ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /gua³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ŋɔi³³/
/hua²³/
Rime
Character 外
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 泰 (26)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 五會切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋuɑiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋʷɑiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋuɑiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋwajH/
Li
Rong		 /ŋuɑiH/
Wang
Li		 /ŋuɑiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋuɑiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wuì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 外
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wài
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngwajH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ŋ]ʷˤa[t]-s/
English outside

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 外
Reading # 1/1
No. 12606
Phonetic
component		 外
Rime
group		 祭
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 外
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋʷaːds/

Definitions

外

  1. out, outside, external
    Antonyms: 裡／里 (lǐ), 內／内 (nèi)
  2. beyond, above
  3. not of one's own family, clan, locality, school, country, etc.; foreign
  4. relatives of one's mother, sister or daughter
    外婆  ―  wàipó  ―  maternal grandmother
    外孫 / 外孙  ―  wàisūn  ―  daughter's son
    外祖父  ―  wàizǔfù  ―  maternal grandfather

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

外

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. outside
  2. foreign
  3. other
  4. except

Readings

Noun

外 ‎(hiragana ほか, romaji hoka)

  1. other (things); the rest

Noun

外 ‎(hiragana そと, romaji soto)

  1. (the) outside

Suffix

外 ‎(hiragana がい, romaji -gai)

  1. outside of; except for

Compounds

Antonyms

Korean

Hanja

外 • ‎(oe)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 외 (revised: oe, McCune-Reischauer: oe, Yale: oy)
  • Name (hangeul): 바깥 (revised: bakkat, McCune-Reischauer: pakkat, Yale: pakkath)
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Vietnamese

Han character

外 (ngoại, ngoái, ngoải, ngoài, nguậy)

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Readings

  • Nôm: ngoái, ngoài, ngoại, ngòi, ngồi

Compounds

References

  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville

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