How to say it in Chinese

Outside world in Chinese

the outside world · HSK 6

外界 wài jiè

  1. 外 wài outside
  2. 界 jiè boundary

他很少和外界联系。 He rarely has contact with the outside world.

Hear 外界 and see more sentences

More words with 外 or 界

How do you say outside world in Chinese?

Outside world in Chinese is 外界 (wài jiè).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

More free tools

Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.

Meanings from our own dictionary. Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.