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Mythic Mandarin

外面 (wài miàn): meaning and stroke order

外面 (wài miàn) means outside (also pr. for this sense), surface, exterior, external appearance.

外面

Simplified
外面
Traditional
外面 (same form)
Pinyin
wài miàn

Stroke order of 外面

外

  • wài outside; in addition
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

面

  • miàn face; side
  • miàn variant of 麵|面[mian4]
  • miàn flour; noodles
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 麪

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 外面

  1. wài miàn
    • outside (also pr. [wai4 mian5] for this sense)
    • surface
    • exterior
    • external appearance

Radicals of the characters

外
Radical 夕 (Kangxi radical 36) · 5 strokes · 夕 on the left, 卜 on the right
面
Radical 面 (Kangxi radical 176) · 9 strokes · 丆 on top, 囬 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

外面 in our stories

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  • 房间很大，窗户外面就是河。

    fángjiān hěn dà chuānghu wàimiàn jiùshì hé

    The room was big, and right outside the window was the river.

    From the story Next Friday HSK 2

Stories using 外面

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).