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另外

lìng wài

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

另外 (lìng wài) means "in addition; besides; moreover". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 另外 means

1. additional
2. in addition
3. besides
4. separate
5. other
6. moreover
7. furthermore

The characters in 另外

• 另lìngother; another; separate
• 外wàioutside; in addition; foreign

Example sentences

• 在服务台另外预约。
  Zài fúwùtái lìngwài yùyuē.
  Make another appointment at the front desk.
• 另外一队轻视了我们。
  Lìngwài yī duì qīngshì le wǒmen.
  The other team took us lightly.
• 总部里有另外一种气氛。
  There was a different kind of atmosphere in the headquarters.
• 大家都在另外的房里等着。
  Everyone is waiting in the other room.
• 所以你来自另外一个星球？
  So you come from another planet?
• 那是我在这里的另外一个理由。
  Nàshi wǒ zài zhèlǐ de lìngwài yī gè lǐyóu.
  That's the other reason I'm here.

Where 另外 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Logical connectives & conjunctions (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read lìng wài correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.