Chinese symbol for “excluding”
之外
zhī wài
outside; excluding
The closest CC-CEDICT match for excluding is 之外 (zhī wài), defined as: outside; excluding.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “excluding”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 之外.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 之后 (之後) | zhī hòu | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then |
| 之间 (之間) | zhī jiān | (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 弹指之间 ( |
| 之前 | zhī qián | before; prior to |
| 之一 | zhī yī | one of (sth); one out of a multitude |
| 之中 | zhī zhōng | inside; among |
| 另外 | lìng wài | additional; in addition |
| 此外 | cǐ wài | besides; in addition; moreover; furthermore |
| 外国 (外國) | wài guó | foreign country |
See also: Japanese symbol for “excluding”.
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.