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Chinese symbol for “exceptionally”

分外
fèn wài
exceptionally; not one's responsibility or job

The closest CC-CEDICT match for exceptionally is 分外 (fèn wài), defined as: exceptionally; not one's responsibility or job.

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Characters and stroke order

分 fèn
to divide, to allocate; fraction; small unit of time or other quantity
radical 18 ⼑ · 4 strokes
外 wài
out, outside, external; foreign; in addition
radical 36 ⼣ · 5 strokes

Other Chinese words for “exceptionally”

WordPinyinMeaning
异常 (異常)yì chángunusual; abnormal; extremely; exceptionally

Related words

Other words that share a character with 分外.

WordPinyinMeaning
部分bù fenpart; portion; piece; Taiwan pr. [bu4fen4]
分析fēn xīto analyze; analysis
分别 (分別)fēn biéto part; to leave each other; to distinguish; to tell apart
分钟 (分鐘)fēn zhōngminute
十分shí fēnvery; completely
分享fēn xiǎngto share (esp. sth enjoyable, useful or beneficial)
另外lìng wàiadditional; in addition
此外cǐ wàibesides; in addition; moreover; furthermore

See also: Japanese symbol for “exceptionally”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.