外来
wài​lái HSK6

external

外来 外來 wài​lái
external adjective
Coming from the outside, another place, or a foreign country; foreign; incoming.

与细菌或者病毒不同，癌细胞不是外来入侵者。

yǔ xì​jūn huò​zhě bìng​dú bù​tóng, ái​xì​bāo bù​shì wài​lái rù​qīn​zhě.

Unlike bacteria or viruses, cancer cells are not foreign invaders.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
4.20 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
23.4 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 6

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Antonym

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)