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外资

wàizī

foreign capital; foreign investment

An investor passes coins across a bridge into a factory building
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Characters in this word

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

资 zī

Strokes
10
Radical
贝 — sea shell
Made of
次 order, sequence 贝 sea shell
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 资

Example phrases

  • 外资企业进入后,当地供应链既获得了技术溢出,也面临更激烈的竞争。 Wàizī qǐyè jìnrù hòu, dāngdì gōngyìngliàn jì huòdé le jìshù yìchū, yě miànlín gèng jīliè de jìngzhēng. After foreign-invested enterprises entered, local supply chains gained technology spillovers while also facing fiercer competition.
  • 这个省吸引外资来发展制造业。 Zhège shěng xīyǐn wàizī lái fāzhǎn zhìzào yè. This province attracts foreign capital to develop its manufacturing industry.
  • 近年来,外资大量进入许多国家的市场。 Jìnnián lái, wàizī dàliàng jìnrù xǔduō guójiā de shìchǎng. In recent years foreign investment has poured into many countries' markets.

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