外間

Chinese

		outside; in addition; foreign outside; in addition; foreign; external	interstice; separate; between interstice; separate; between; among; space; (measure word)
trad. (外間)		外	間
simp. (外间)		外	间

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wàijiān

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄞˋ ㄐㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngoi⁶ gaan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wàijiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄞˋ ㄐㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wàijian
    • Wade–Giles: wai⁴-chien¹
    • Yale: wài-jyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wayjian
    • Palladius: вайцзянь (vajczjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waɪ̯⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wàijiānr
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄞˋ ㄐㄧㄢㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wàijianr
    • Wade–Giles: wai⁴-chien¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: wài-jyānr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wayjial
    • Palladius: вайцзяньр (vajczjanʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waɪ̯⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑɻ⁵⁵/

Note: wàijiānr - “outer room”.

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngoi⁶ gaan¹
    • Yale: ngoih gāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngoi⁶ gaan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngoi⁶ gan¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɔːi̯²² kaːn⁵⁵/

Noun

外間

1. outer room

   Antonym: 裡間／里间 (lǐjiān)

2. (literary) external world; outside circles

   Synonym: 外界 (wàijiè)

   • 我們的政權是分散而又孤立的山地或僻地的政權，沒有任何的外間援助。 [MSC, trad.]
     我们的政权是分散而又孤立的山地或僻地的政权，没有任何的外间援助。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1936, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《中國革命戰爭的戰略問題》 (Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Wǒmen de zhèngquán shì fēnsàn ér yòu gūlì de shāndì huò pìdì de zhèngquán, méiyǒu rènhé de wàijiān yuánzhù. [Pinyin]

     Our political power exists in scattered and isolated mountainous or remote regions and receives no outside help whatsoever.