wài sūn

Traditional: 外孫

外孙 (wài sūn) is a Chinese word meaning “daughter's son; grandson; descendant via the female line”.

Meanings

  1. 1daughter's son
  2. 2grandson
  3. 3descendant via the female line

Characters in 外孙

外wài · outside孙sūn · grandson

Related words

外面outside (also pr. [wai4 mian5] for this sense)另外additional外outside意外unexpected之外outside外套outer garment; jacket; coat以外apart from外星人space alien; extraterrestrial外科surgery (branch of medicine)孙子grandson孙子Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武|孙武[Sun1 Wu3] (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1]外表external

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