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外界

wài jiè

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

外界 (wài jiè) means "the outside world". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 外界 means

1. the outside world
2. external

The characters in 外界

• 外wàioutside; in addition; foreign
• 界jiè(bound form) boundary; border; (bound form) realm

Sounds the same

Read wài jiè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 外借to lend (sth other than money); to borrow

Where 外界 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · tuò–wá (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read wài jiè correctly.
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