Character Details
| foreigner | Ascii: 27599 | w674 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 老外 | lǎowài | loawe-wye | 3+4 | 外 (evening + divination) + 国 (enclosure + jade) | 老外 link | ||||||
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| - --Research Pending-- | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; noun | 老 (老 old radical) + 外 (evening + divination) | ||||||||||
| Old (老) outsider (外) — foreigner (colloquial). | |||||||||||