Wǒ tàitai jiānzhí de gōngzuò zhuàn jìn le yìxiē éwài de qián.
My wife’s part-time job brings in a bit of extra money.
Sentence #886128 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted
How 额外 is built
Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.
额éforehead
客guest · kèSound part
页page · xiéMeaning part
页 hints at the meaning (page); 客 (kè) hints at the sound. Compare it with é.
外wàioutside
夕evening · xī
卜divination · bǔ
Memory aidEvening 夕 beside a divination crack 卜. Picture fortune-telling done at night, out of doors: outside.
How to write 额外
额 15 strokes · 外 5 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 额外 (éwài). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
额外 (éwài) means “extra” or “additional”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it éwài: é with a 2nd tone, then wài with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 额外 is written 額外. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ewai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 额外 from the suggestions. Typing ewai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
额外 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.
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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
额é2nd tone, rising
外wài4th tone, falling
