外来词 (外來詞)
wài lái cí
Pinyin

Definition

外来词 (外來詞)
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wài lái cí
  1. loanword

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

另外
lìng wài
  1. 1 additional
  2. 2 in addition
  3. 3 besides
  4. 4 separate
  5. 5 other
  6. 6 moreover
  7. 7 furthermore
外
wài
  1. 1 outside
  2. 2 in addition
  3. 3 foreign
  4. 4 external
外套
wài tào
  1. 1 coat
  2. 2 jacket
  3. 3 classifier: 件 jiàn
外婆
wài pó
  1. 1 (coll.) mother's mother
  2. 2 maternal grandmother
外面
wài miàn
  1. 1 outside (also pr. [wài mian] for this sense)
  2. 2 surface
  3. 3 exterior
  4. 4 external appearance

Idioms (20)

不足为外人道
bù zú wéi wài rén dào
  1. 1 no use to tell others
  2. 2 let's keep this between ourselves (idiom)
九霄云外
jiǔ xiāo yún wài
  1. 1 beyond the topmost clouds (idiom)
  2. 2 unimaginably far away
人外有人，天外有天
rén wài yǒu rén , tiān wài yǒu tiān
  1. 1 in the wider world there are people more talented than oneself (idiom)
仇人相见，分外眼红
chóu rén xiāng jiàn , fèn wài yǎn hóng
  1. 1 when the enemies come face to face, their eyes blaze with hatred (idiom)
付之度外
fù zhī dù wài
  1. 1 to think nothing of doing sth (idiom)
  2. 2 to do sth without considering the risks
  3. 3 to leave out of consideration

Sample Sentences

嗯，还真是这样！各种语言好像都有挺多的英语外来词汇，毕竟它是全球性的语言嘛。不过汉语里也有一些来自日语的外来词。它们在日语里就以汉字形式出现，但有些读音和意思都和汉语不同。这部分外来词我们一般不容易感受到。
ng4 ，hái zhēnshì zhèyàng ！gèzhǒng yǔyán hǎoxiàng dōu yǒu tǐng duō de yīngyǔ wàilái cíhuì ，bìjìng tā shì quánqiúxìng de yǔyán ma 。bùguò hànyǔ lǐ yě yǒu yīxiē láizì rìyǔ de wàiláicí 。tāmen zài rìyǔ lǐ jiù yǐ hànzì xíngshì chūxiàn ，dàn yǒuxiē dúyīn hé yìsi dōu hé hànyǔ bùtóng 。zhè bùfen wàiláicí wǒmen yībān bù róngyì gǎnshòudào 。
Oh, it's so true. It seems like all languages have a lot of words from English. It is a global language, after all. But Chinese also has some words from Japanese. In Japanese, they are expressed with Chinese characters, but some of their readings and meanings are different. It's generally not easy for us to come into contact with these.
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我现在在学日语，发现里面有好多直接从英语音译过来的外来词。
wǒ xiànzài zài xué rìyǔ ，fāxiàn lǐmiàn yǒu hǎoduō zhíjiē cóng yīngyǔ yīnyì guòlai de wàiláicí 。
I'm studying Japanese now. I'm finding that there are a lot of words that were directly transliterated from the English.
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外来词
wàiláicí
loan word
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