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外 — stroke order
Watch how to write 外 (wài) stroke by stroke. 外 has 5 strokes and means “out”. It appears in common words such as 外面 (surface) and 外套 (coat). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 外
The most common words that use 外 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
外面wàimiànsurface外套wàitàocoat外婆wàipómother's mother意外yìwàiunexpected另外lìngwàiadditional之外zhīwàioutside
How 外 is written
- Radical
- 夕
- Components
- 夕 ＋ 卜
- Formation
- Ideographic — Night-time 夕 divinations 卜; the supernatural, the foreign.