外边
wài bian
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 外邊
Outside, out there: the area beyond a room, a building or one's home. It can be the subject (外边下雨了 'it's raining outside') or follow 在: 在外边 'outside'. After a noun it means 'outside of': 学校外边 'outside the school'. The second syllable is unstressed: wàibian.
Bên ngoài, ở ngoài: khoảng không gian ngoài phòng, ngoài nhà. Có thể làm chủ ngữ (外边下雨了: bên ngoài trời mưa rồi) hoặc đứng sau 在 (在外边: ở ngoài). Sau danh từ nghĩa là “bên ngoài”: 学校外边 (bên ngoài trường). Chữ 边 đọc thanh nhẹ: wàibian.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “外边” mean?
Outside, out there: the area beyond a room, a building or one's home. It can be the subject (外边下雨了 'it's raining outside') or follow 在: 在外边 'outside'. After a noun it means 'outside of': 学校外边 'outside the school'. The second syllable is unstressed: wàibian. Literally: outer side
Is “外边” formal or informal?
外边 is generally neutral.