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外语 (wài yǔ): meaning and stroke order

外语 (wài yǔ) means foreign language, 门.

外语

Simplified
外语
Traditional
外語
Pinyin
wài yǔ

Stroke order of 外语

外

  • wài outside; in addition
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

语

  • yǔ dialect; language
  • yù (literary) to tell; to let (sb) know
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 語

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 外语

  1. wài yǔ Traditional 外語
    • foreign language
    • CL:門|门[men2]

Radicals of the characters

外
Radical 夕 (Kangxi radical 36) · 5 strokes · 夕 on the left, 卜 on the right
语
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 9 strokes · 讠 on the left, 吾 on the right

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.

外语 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 有的人说自己热爱大自然，却受不了一只蚊子；有的人说想学外语，却从来不敢开口跟外国人说话。

    yǒu de rén shuō zìjǐ rè'ài dàzìrán què shòubuliǎo yì zhī wénzi yǒu de rén shuō xiǎng xué wàiyǔ què cónglái bù gǎn kāikǒu gēn wàiguórén shuōhuà

    Some people say they love nature but can't stand a single mosquito; others say they want to learn a foreign language but never dare to speak to a foreigner.

    From the story Lord Ye loves dragons HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 外语

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).