Memory phrase for the character: 外

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Left: evening 夕 (When the moon 月 is not yet fully there, it is only evening.), right: bifurcation/parting of the ways 卜

If you are in the evening (alone) at a fork in the road, you are: an outsider.

夕	evening	This radical is similar to moon: 月, but at the evening the moon is not complete and thus only one inner line.
卜	oracle, mysticism	This radical is considered to be a simplification of: fortune telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told.). Sometimes it is read as a forking of a road.

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外国	wài guó	foreign (country)
外边	wài bian	outside; outer surface; abroad; place other than one's home
对外贸易	duì wài mào yì	foreign trade
例外	lì wài	(make an) exception
紫外线	zǐ wài xiàn	ultraviolet ray
外壳	wài ké	envelope; outer shell; hull; cover; case
媚外	mèi wài	to fawn on foreigners; to pander to foreign powers
胳膊肘朝外拐	gē bo zhǒu cháo wài guǎi	the elbow turns the wrong way; to favor an outsider instead of someone on one's own side (idiom)
外骨骼	wài gǔ gé	exoskeleton (the carapace of insects, crabs etc)
信孚中外	xìn fú zhōng wài	to be trusted both at home and abroad (idiom)
外甥	wài shēng	sister's son; wife's sibling's son
外甥	wài shēng

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