中外 zhōngwài Sino-foreign
Sino-foreign; Chinese-foreign; home and abroad
How to remember 中外: 中 middle + 外 outside = Sino-foreign.
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How it is used
- Acts as a compressed China-and-abroad, almost always attributive before a noun, not a standalone subject.
- Common in news and formal writing: 中外合作 (Sino-foreign cooperation), 中外关系, 中外学者 - Chinese and foreign scholars.
- Written register - in speech people usually say 国内外 (domestic and abroad) or spell out 中国和外国 instead.