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Translation

wài = w + ai4: outside / in addition / foreign / external

Mnemonic

There's a hole in the wall of the airplane's bathroom (ai4), and from outside (外), a bat (夕) wants to enter. Willy Walrus (w) is very afraid of bats, so he does his best to hinder the bat from entering with a voodoo staff (卜).

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外 character breakdown

(bound form) to divine / to forecast or estimate / (of a place to live etc) to choose
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dusk / evening / Taiwan pr. [xi4]
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Characters with 外 as component

外 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 外

outside / excluding
apart from / other than / except for / external / outside of / on the other side of / beyond
see 桃花源[tao2 hua1 yuan2]
Sino-foreign / Chinese-foreign / home and abroad
beyond the topmost clouds (idiom) / unimaginably far away
not beyond the scope of / nothing more than
no use to tell others / let's keep this between ourselves (idiom)
abbr. for 上海外國語大學|上海外国语大学[Shang4 hai3 Wai4 guo2 yu3 Da4 xue2]
not exposed / concealed from view
traffic accident / car crash
in the wider world there are people more talented than oneself (idiom)
when the enemies come face to face, their eyes blaze with hatred (idiom)
to feel animosity toward foreigners or outsiders / xenophobia
to think nothing of doing sth (idiom) / to do sth without considering the risks / to leave out of consideration

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