"Overseas" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 guó wài abroad / external (affairs) / overseas / foreign
 hǎi wài overseas / abroad
 Táng shān Tangshan prefecture-level city in Hebei / China (a name for China used by some overseas Chinese)
 Huá qiáo overseas Chinese / (in a restricted sense) Chinese emigrant who still retains Chinese nationality / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
 wài yuán foreign aid / external aid / (sports) foreign player / player recruited from overseas
 chū hǎi to go out to sea / (neologism) to expand into overseas markets
 qiáo xiāng hometown of overseas Chinese
 hǎi guī sb who has come back to China after gaining overseas experience (a pun on 海龜|海龟[hai3 gui1]) / to return to China after a period of study or work overseas
 hǎi wài Huá rén overseas Chinese
 lā liàn (military) to undergo field training (camping, bivouacking, route marching, live fire practice etc) / (sports) to get into peak condition by competing overseas
 péi dú to accompany one's child or spouse who is studying overseas / to help a child with their study, reading or practicing together
 tǔ biē ground beetle / (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a 海歸|海归[hai3 gui1], has never studied overseas / (dialect) country bumpkin
 liú wáng zài hǎi wài to be in exile overseas
 wài shāng zhí jiē tóu zī overseas foreign direct investment (OFDI)
 wài jí Huá rén overseas Chinese / persons of Chinese origin having foreign citizenship
 chóng yáng mèi wài to revere everything foreign and pander to overseas powers (idiom) / blind worship of foreign goods and ideas
 Liú ní wāng Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department)
 rì běn hǎi wài jīng jì hé zuò jī jīn Japanese Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund
  Overseas Properties Management Information Exchange Network
  Planning, Design and Overseas Properties Section
  Overseas Development Council
 hǎi wài jīn tiē overseas allowances
  Canadian University Service Overseas
  Overseas Countries and Territories Association
沿  Overseas Coastal Area Development Institute of Japan
  Overseas Territories Consultative Council
 hǎi wài lián xì guó overseas countries and territories
 hǎi wài lián xì lǐng tǔ overseas countries and territories
 hǎi wài lǐng tǔ overseas territory
  Implementing Convention relating to the Association with the Community of the Overseas Countries and Territories
  Catholic Agency for Overseas Development
  Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers
  Overseas Development Natural Resources Institute
  British Overseas NGOs for Development
  Overseas Education Fund of the League of Women Voters
  Overseas Education Fund International
  Overseas Development Institute
  Overseas Development Administration
  Overseas Property Management and Construction Unit
  Overseas Offices Section
  Overseas Telecommunications Commission International
 Qiáo wù Wěi yuán huì Overseas Chinese Affairs Council, Taiwan
 fān kè (old) foreigner / alien / (dialect) overseas Chinese
 hǎi wài chì zǐ patriotic overseas compatriot
 Liú ní wàng Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department) (Tw)
 hǎi dài student who has returned from overseas but is yet to find a job (pun on 海帶|海带[hai3 dai4]) / cf. 海歸|海归[hai3 gui1]
 hǎi táo online purchase of goods dispatched from overseas
 huá jiào Chinese language education (for people living outside China, esp. the children of overseas Chinese communities)
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