"Foreign" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 zhí jiē tóu zī Foreign
 wài outside / in addition / foreign / external
 fān foreign (non-Chinese) / barbarian / classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance) / classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc) / classifier for situations: kind, sort
 guó wài abroad / external (affairs) / overseas / foreign
 duì wài external / foreign / pertaining to external or foreign (affairs)
 wài guó foreign (country) / CL:個|个[ge4]
 wài huì foreign (currency) exchange
 wài lái external / foreign / outside
 yì guó exotic / foreign
 wài jí foreign (i.e. of foreign nationality)
 yù wài outside the country / abroad / foreign / extraterritorial
 yáng ocean / vast / foreign / silver dollar or coin
 wài zī foreign investment
 wài mào foreign trade
 wài yǔ foreign language / CL:門|门[men2]
 wài jiāo diplomacy / diplomatic / foreign affairs / CL:個|个[ge4]
 wài shāng foreign businessman
 nèi wài inside and outside / domestic and foreign / approximately / about
 lǐng dǎo xiǎo zǔ leading small group (LSG), a CCP body that exercises general oversight on matters relating to a specific area (LSG for foreign affairs 外事工作, LSG for comprehensively deepening reforms 全面深化改革 / etc) / aka central leading group
 dú zī wholly-owned (often by foreign company) / exclusive investment
 Wài jiāo bù Ministry of Foreign Affairs / foreign office / Dept. of State
 duì wài mào yì foreign trade
 shè wài concerning foreigners or foreign affairs
 wài qǐ foreign enterprise / company established in mainland China with direct investment from foreign entities or from investors in Taiwan, Macao or Hong Kong / abbr. for 外資企業|外资企业
 wài guó yǔ foreign language
 wài yuán foreign aid / external aid / (sports) foreign player / player recruited from overseas
 wài wén foreign language (written)
 tīng lái to sound (old, foreign, exciting, right etc) / to ring (true) / to sound as if (i.e. to give the listener an impression) / to hear from somewhere
 wài zhǎng foreign minister / secretary of state / minister of foreign affairs
 yì yù foreign country / alien land
 wài bì foreign currency
 tā xiāng foreign land / away from one's native place
 yì xiāng foreign land / a place far from home
 qiú zhǎng headman (of primitive people) / tribal chief / used as translation for foreign leaders, e.g. Indian Rajah or Arab Sheik or Emir
 wài shì foreign affairs
 tè bié xíng zhèng qū special administrative region (SAR), of which there are two in the PRC: Hong Kong 香港 / and Macau 澳門|澳门 / refers to many different areas during late Qing, foreign occupation, warlord period and Nationalist government / refers to special zones in North Korea and Indonesia
 běn dì huà localization / adaptation (to foreign environment)
 chuàng huì to earn foreign exchange
 yì wù rarity / rare delicacy / foreign matter / alien body / the dead / ghost / monstrosity / alien life-form
 dà bān tai-pan / business executive / foreign business manager / top class of kindergarten or school grade
 wài diàn reports from foreign news agencies
 wài jiào foreign teacher (abbr. for 外國教師|外国教师) / greenhorn / novice / amateurish / religion other than Buddhism (term used by Buddhists)
 wài huì shì chǎng foreign currency market
 dān zì single Chinese character / word (in a foreign language)
 pài zhù to dispatch (sb) in an official capacity / to be posted (as an ambassador, foreign correspondent etc)
西 Xī wén Spanish / Western language / foreign languages (in Qing times)
 zhào jiàn call in (one's subordinates) / summon (an envoy of a foreign country) to an interview
 Lǐ Zhào xīng Li Zhaoxing (1940-), former PRC foreign minister
 yuē jiàn to arrange an interview / an appointment (with the foreign ambassador)
 hǎi wài bǎn foreign edition (of a newspaper)
 wài jiāo zhèng cè foreign policy
 jìng nèi wài within and without the borders / domestic and foreign / home and abroad
 wài jiāo bù zhǎng minister of foreign affairs
 wài zhài foreign debt
 Chén Yì Chen Yi (1901-1972), communist general and politician, Marshal of PLA from 1955, Mayor of Shanghai in 1950s, PRC foreign minister 1958-1972
 jìn liào to feed (a machine) / foreign goods (abbr. of 進口資料|进口资料)
 wài bīn foreign guest / international visitor
 zū jiè foreign concession, an enclave occupied by a foreign power (in China in the 19th and 20th centuries)
 tà zú to set foot on (a foreign land etc) / to tread / (fig.) to enter (a new sphere)
 Guó jiā Wài huì Guǎn lǐ jú State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE)
 wài jiāo guān xì foreign relations / diplomatic relations
 sān zī qǐ yè foreign, private and joint ventures
 yáng guǐ zi foreign devil / term of abuse for Westerners
 wài wù shěng foreign ministry (e.g. of Japan or Korea)
 jiē huì foreign exchange settlement
 jié huì foreign exchange settlement
 yáng wù foreign affairs (in Qing times) / foreign learning
 chóng yáng to idolize foreign things
 yáng niū young foreign girl
 Běi jīng Wài guó yǔ Dà xué Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU)
 yáng háng foreign firm (old)
 wài xiàng Foreign Minister
 mèi wài to fawn on foreigners / to pander to foreign powers
 wài wù foreign affairs
 shōu huì foreign exchange collection (finance)
 kè jū to live in a foreign place / to live somewhere as a guest
 xún bǔ to patrol / policeman (in China's former foreign concessions)
 wài guó tóu zī foreign investment
 chǎo huì to speculate in foreign currency
 yì yì meaning (of foreign expression) / translation of the meaning (as opposed to literal translation 直譯|直译) / paraphrase / free translation
 bó lái pǐn (old) imported goods / foreign goods
 Hàn xué sinology / Chinese studies (in foreign schools) / Han Learning, a Qing dynasty movement aiming at a philological appraisal of the Classics
 wài huàn foreign aggression
 yáng qì Western style / foreign flavor / trendy / fashionable
 wài bàn foreign affairs office
 zì yǎng self-sustaining / economically independent (of state aid, foreign subsidy etc)
 qiáo jū to live far away from one's native place / to reside in a foreign country
 bì guān suǒ guó to close the passes and seal off the country / to close a country to exclude foreign contact
 wài wén xì department of foreign languages / modern languages (college department)
 Hú Zhì qiáng Jason Hu (1948-), former Taiwan foreign minister
 yì bāng foreign country
 tā xiāng yù gù zhī meeting an old friend in a foreign place (idiom)
 yáng wù pài the foreign learning or Westernizing faction in the late Qing
 lún wáng (of a country) to perish / to be annexed / subjugation (to a foreign power)
 wài shì chù Foreign Affairs Office (at a university) / Foreign Affairs Department
 Shěn Guó fàng Shen Guofang (1952-), PRC assistant minister of foreign affairs (2003-2005)
 kuǎ zi person speaking with a foreign accent
使 gōng shǐ guǎn embassy (old term) / foreign mission
 Zhōng guó Rén mín Duì wài Yǒu hǎo Xié huì Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC)
 nài used in expressions that convey frustration and futility, such as 無奈|无奈[wu2 nai4] and 莫可奈何|莫可奈何[mo4 ke3 nai4 he2] (literary) / used for its phonetic value in writing foreign words
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