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以外

HSK 3#3014 by frequencyradical 人

yǐ wài["f"]

apart from; other than; except for; external; outside of; on the other side of; beyond

Examples

除了我以外,大家都很忙。

Everybody is busy except me.

除我以外,所有人都醉了。

Everyone was drunk, except for me.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.