外 (wài) means Outside (foreign - external). Below are 12 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
孩子们在 外 面玩。
Háizimen zài wàimiàn wán.
The children are playing outside.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 外
他在门 外 等我。
Tā zài mén wài děng wǒ.
He is waiting for me outside the door.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 门
学 外 语很有用。
Xué wàiyǔ hěn yǒuyòng.
Learning a foreign language is very useful.
Dictionary example · 学
我姐姐在国 外 留学。
Wǒ jiějie zài guówài liúxué.
My older sister is studying abroad.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 留学
狗在门 外 ，它想进来。
Gǒu zài mén wài, tā xiǎng jìnlai.
The dog is outside the door; it wants to come in.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 它
外 面下雨了，带把伞吧。
Wàimiàn xià yǔ le, dài bǎ sǎn ba.
It's raining outside — take an umbrella.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 伞
外 面刮风了，把门关上吧。
Wàimiàn guāfēng le, bǎ mén guānshàng ba.
It's windy outside — let's close the door.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 刮风
From the graded readers
窗户 外 边有一棵树，上边常常有鸟。
chuāng hùwài biān yǒu yī kē shù, shàng biān chángcháng yǒu niǎo.
Outside the window there's a tree, and there are often birds in it.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My New Room
我把衣服放进箱子里，把书放在另 外 一个箱子里。
wǒ bǎ yīfu fàngjìn xiāngzi lǐ, bǎ shū fàng zài lìngwài yīgè xiāngzi lǐ.
I put the clothes in boxes and the books in another box.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Moving House
From the travel phrasebook
我们不能接待 外 宾。
Wǒmen bù néng jiēdài wàibīn.
We can't accommodate foreign guests.
Travel phrasebook · Hotel check-in
Words that contain 外
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 外
How is 外 used in a sentence?
This page shows 12 sentences using 外 (wài, "Outside (foreign - external)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 外 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 外 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 外 an HSK word?
Yes — 外 is on the official HSK 2 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 2 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 外?
The dictionary page for 外 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
Keep going
Read the full entry for 外, write a sentence of your own and check it in the Pinyin Annotator, drill it with HSK 2 flashcards, or search the whole sentence bank for another word.
Another word
Chinese, pinyin or English. Tone marks optional.