外卖 wàimài takeout
(of a restaurant) to provide a takeout or home delivery meal; takeout (business); takeout (meal)
How to remember 外卖: 外 outside + 卖 to sell = takeout.
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How it is used
- Takeout / food delivery - 点外卖 (diǎn wàimài) order delivery; in modern China this overwhelmingly means app-ordered delivery to your door.
- Contrast 堂食 (tángshí, dine-in) and 打包 (dǎbāo, box up leftovers to take away); 外卖 is food that comes to you.
- Also the delivery meal itself: 外卖到了 (wàimài dào le) the takeout's here.
Example sentences
- 今天晚上我们点外卖吧。 Jīntiān wǎnshang wǒmen diǎn wàimài ba.Let us order takeout tonight.