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Chinese symbol for “outdoor”

室外
shì wài
outdoor

The closest CC-CEDICT match for outdoor is 室外 (shì wài), defined as: outdoor.

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Characters and stroke order

室 shì
house, home; room, chamber
radical 40 ⼧ · 9 strokes
外 wài
out, outside, external; foreign; in addition
radical 36 ⼣ · 5 strokes

Other Chinese words for “outdoor”

WordPinyinMeaning
户外 (戶外)hù wàioutdoors; (attributive) outdoor

Related words

Other words that share a character with 室外.

WordPinyinMeaning
办公室 (辦公室)bàn gōng shìoffice; business premises
实验室 (實驗室)shí yàn shìlaboratory; 间 (jiān)
教室jiào shìclassroom; 间 (jiān)
工作室gōng zuò shìstudio; workshop
室内 (室內)shì nèiindoor
浴室yù shìbathroom; shower room (间 (jiān)); bathhouse
另外lìng wàiadditional; in addition
此外cǐ wàibesides; in addition; moreover; furthermore

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.