国外 國外 guó wài abroad / external (affairs) / overseas / foreign syn 对外 對外 duì wài external / foreign / pertaining to external or foreign (affairs) 内务 內務 nèi wù internal affairs / domestic affairs / family affairs / (trad.) affairs within the palace 外交部 wài jiāo bù Ministry of Foreign Affairs / foreign office / Dept. of State 外援 wài yuán foreign aid / external aid / (sports) foreign player / player recruited from overseas 中外 zhōng wài Sino-foreign / Chinese-foreign / home and abroad syn 外籍 wài jí foreign (i.e. of foreign nationality) 外交部长 外交部長 wài jiāo bù zhǎng minister of foreign affairs 涉外 shè wài concerning foreigners or foreign affairs 外长 外長 wài zhǎng foreign minister / secretary of state / minister of foreign affairs 租界 zū jiè foreign concession, an enclave occupied by a foreign power (in China in the 19th and 20th centuries) syn 外办 外辦 wài bàn foreign affairs office 领导小组 領導小組 lǐng dǎo xiǎo zǔ leading small group (LSG), a CCP body that exercises general oversight on matters relating to a specific area (LSG for foreign affairs 外事工作, LSG for comprehensively deepening reforms 全面深化改革 etc) / aka central leading group 外企 wài qǐ foreign enterprise / company established in mainland China with direct investment from foreign entities or from investors in Taiwan, Macao or Hong Kong / abbr. for 外資企業|外资企业 外事处 外事處 wài shì chù Foreign Affairs Office (at a university) / Foreign Affairs Department 沈国放 沈國放 shěn guó fàng Shen Guofang (1952-), PRC assistant minister of foreign affairs (2003-2005) 情况 情況 qíng kuàng circumstances / state of affairs / situation / CL:個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3] syn 外 wài outside / in addition / foreign / external syn 状态 狀態 zhuàng tài condition / state / state of affairs / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 理 lǐ texture / grain (of wood) / inner essence / intrinsic order / reason / logic / truth / science / natural science (esp. physics) / to manage / to pay attention to / to run (affairs) / to handle / to put in order / to tidy up syn 军事 軍事 jūn shì military affairs / (attributive) military syn 事务 事務 shì wù (political, economic etc) affairs / work / transaction (as in a computer database) syn 办事 辦事 bàn shì to handle (affairs) / to work syn 财务 財務 cái wù financial affairs 局势 局勢 jú shì situation / state (of affairs) syn 外国 外國 wài guó foreign country syn 事态 事態 shì tài situation / existing state of affairs syn 酋长 酋長 qiú zhǎng headman (of primitive people) / tribal chief / used as translation for foreign leaders, e.g. Indian Rajah or Arab Sheik or Emir 民事 mín shì civil case / agricultural affairs / civil 气候 氣候 qì hòu (meteorology) climate / (fig.) climate / prevailing conditions (in human affairs) / CL:種|种[zhong3] syn 外来 外來 wài lái external / foreign / outside syn 希尔 希爾 xī ěr Hill (name) / Christopher Hill, US undersecretary of state of East Asian affairs 商务 商務 shāng wù commercial affairs / commercial / commerce / business 世事 shì shì affairs of life / things of the world syn 医务 醫務 yī wù medical affairs 定律 dìng lǜ scientific law (e.g. law of conservation of energy) / (in human affairs) a generalization based on observation (e.g. "power corrupts") syn 内务部 內務部 nèi wù bù Ministry of Internal Affairs 人事 rén shì personnel / human resources / human affairs / ways of the world / (euphemism) sexuality / the facts of life syn 听命 聽命 tīng mìng to obey an order / to take orders / to accept a state of affairs syn 处事 處事 chǔ shì to handle affairs / to deal with matters syn 出世 chū shì to be born / to come into being / to withdraw from worldly affairs syn 鬼子 guǐ zi devil (derog. term for foreign invaders) / (esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931-1945) Jap / Nip syn 异国 異國 yì guó exotic / foreign syn 家事 jiā shì family matters / domestic affairs / housework syn 外语 外語 wài yǔ foreign language / CL:門|门[men2] syn 内政 內政 nèi zhèng internal affairs (of a country) 异乡 異鄉 yì xiāng foreign land / a place far from home syn 踏足 tà zú to set foot on (a foreign land etc) / to tread / (fig.) to enter (a new sphere) syn 异物 異物 yì wù rarity / rare delicacy / foreign matter / alien body / the dead / ghost / monstrosity / alien life-form syn 召见 召見 zhào jiàn call in (one's subordinates) / summon (an envoy of a foreign country) to an interview 内外 內外 nèi wài inside and outside / domestic and foreign / approximately / about syn 情场 情場 qíng chǎng affairs of the heart / mutual relationship 派驻 派駐 pài zhù to dispatch (sb) in an official capacity / to be posted (as an ambassador, foreign correspondent etc) 外汇 外匯 wài huì foreign (currency) exchange 海事 hǎi shì maritime affairs / accident at sea syn 红尘 紅塵 hóng chén the world of mortals (Buddhism) / human society / worldly affairs syn 约见 約見 yuē jiàn to arrange an interview / an appointment (with the foreign ambassador) 异域 異域 yì yù foreign country / alien land syn 他乡 他鄉 tā xiāng foreign land / away from one's native place syn 独立自主 獨立自主 dú lì zì zhǔ independent and autonomous (idiom) / self-determination / to act independently / to maintain control over one's own affairs syn 洋鬼子 yáng guǐ zi foreign devil / term of abuse for Westerners syn 人文 rén wén humanities / human affairs / culture 外相 wài xiàng Foreign Minister 越俎代庖 yuè zǔ dài páo lit. to go beyond the sacrificial altar and take over the kitchen (idiom) / fig. to exceed one's place and meddle in other people's affairs / to take matters into one's own hands syn 政务 政務 zhèng wù government affairs syn 留学生 留學生 liú xué shēng student studying abroad / returned student / foreign student / international student 入世 rù shì to engage with secular society / to involve oneself in human affairs / to join the WTO (abbr. for 加入世界貿易組織|加入世界贸易组织[jia1 ru4 Shi4 jie4 Mao4 yi4 Zu3 zhi1]) 国事 國事 guó shì affairs of the nation / politics syn 外文 wài wén foreign language (written) syn 外币 外幣 wài bì foreign currency 总务 總務 zǒng wù general matters / division of general affairs / person in overall charge syn 与世无争 與世無爭 yǔ shì wú zhēng (idiom) to stand aloof from worldly affairs syn 国务 國務 guó wù affairs of state syn 咨文 zī wén (old) official communication (between government offices of equal rank) / report delivered by the head of government on affairs of state syn 外贸 外貿 wài mào foreign trade 单字 單字 dān zì single Chinese character / (Tw) word (of a foreign language) syn 政事 zhèng shì politics / government affairs syn 送终 送終 sòng zhōng to attend upon a dying parent or other senior family member / to handle the funeral affairs of a senior family member 意译 意譯 yì yì meaning (of foreign expression) / translation of the meaning (as opposed to literal translation 直譯|直译) / paraphrase / free translation 世情 shì qíng worldly affairs / the ways of the world syn 外宾 外賓 wài bīn foreign guest / international visitor 当家作主 當家作主 dāng jiā zuò zhǔ to be in charge in one's own house (idiom) / to be the master of one's own affairs syn 事体 事體 shì tǐ things / affairs / decorum syn 外债 外債 wài zhài foreign debt 侨居 僑居 qiáo jū to live far away from one's native place / to reside in a foreign country syn 外国语 外國語 wài guó yǔ foreign language syn 大班 dà bān tai-pan / business executive / foreign business manager / top class of kindergarten or school grade syn 军务 軍務 jūn wù military affairs 舶来品 舶來品 bó lái pǐn (old) imported goods / foreign goods syn 汉学 漢學 hàn xué sinology / Chinese studies (in foreign schools) / Han Learning, a Qing dynasty movement aiming at a philological appraisal of the Classics 洋气 洋氣 yáng qì Western style / foreign flavor / trendy / fashionable syn 自养 自養 zì yǎng self-sustaining / economically independent (of state aid, foreign subsidy etc) 外资 外資 wài zī foreign investment 独资 獨資 dú zī wholly-owned (often by foreign company) / exclusive investment 民政局 mín zhèng jú Bureau of Civil Affairs 