仇外

chóuwài
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to feel animosity toward foreigners
  2. 2 xenophobia
  3. 3 to be xenophobic

Examples

Wǎngluò shàng de chóuwài yánlùn yuèláiyuè duō.
There's more and more xenophobic rhetoric online.
Tā bù chóuwài, dàn fǎnduì mángmù chóngyáng.
He isn't xenophobic, but he opposes blind worship of the West.

Tips

usage
Pairs with its opposite (chóngyáng — 'to worship the foreign'). Both are common in opinion writing about Chinese attitudes toward outsiders. The full noun form is 仇外心理 (chóuwài xīnlǐ — 'xenophobic mentality').

Stroke Order

chóu
wài