外行
wàiháng
layperson; amateur; non-specialist
Characters in this word
行 xíng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 行 — to go, to walk, to move
- Made of
- 彳 to step with the left foot 亍 to take small steps
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 这个领域的门槛很高，外行很容易把相关性误以为因果关系。 Zhè ge lǐngyù de ménkǎn hěn gāo, wàiháng hěn róngyì bǎ xiāngguān xìng wù yǐwéi yīnguǒ guānxi. The threshold in this field is high, and a layperson can easily mistake correlation for causation.
- 我对修车完全是外行，只能请师傅帮忙。 Wǒ duì xiūchē wánquán shì wàiháng, zhǐ néng qǐng shīfu bāngmáng. I am a complete layman when it comes to car repairs, so I can only ask a professional for help.
- 别信他的外行话，他根本不懂音乐。 Bié xìn tā de wàiháng huà, tā gēnběn bù dǒng yīnyuè. Do not trust his amateurish talk; he knows nothing about music at all.
Related words
- 国外 guówài abroad, overseas
- 外 wài outside, outer
- 外边 wàibian outside
- 外国 wàiguó foreign country
- 外语 wàiyǔ foreign language
- 外地 wàidì another place; out of town
- 外卖 wàimài takeout delivery
- 以外 yǐwài outside; except for
- 另外 lìngwài other; in addition
- 外交 wàijiāo diplomacy
- 外面 wàimiàn outside
- 外文 wàiwén foreign language; foreign writing