外 wài
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 夕 — evening, night, dusk
- Made of
- 夕 evening, night, dusk 卜 divination, fortune-telling
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
外语
wàiyǔ
foreign language
Characters in this word
语 yǔ
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 吾 I, my, our
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我在学外语。 Wǒ zài xué wàiyǔ. I'm learning a foreign language.
- 我的外语不好。 Wǒ de wàiyǔ bù hǎo. My foreign language skills aren't good.
- 你喜欢学外语吗？ Nǐ xǐhuan xué wàiyǔ ma? Do you like learning foreign languages?
Related words
- 国外 guówài abroad, overseas
- 外 wài outside, outer
- 外边 wàibian outside
- 外国 wàiguó foreign country
- 汉语 hànyǔ Chinese (language)
- 说 shuō to say, to speak
- 中文 Zhōngwén Chinese (language)
- 说话 shuōhuà to talk, to speak
- 字 zì character, word
- 话 huà speech, words
- 汉字 hànzì Chinese character
- 读 dú to read, to read aloud; to study