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Laowai is the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 老外 (pinyin: lǎowài, lit. "old or always outsider"), an informal and sometimes impolite term for "foreigner." Formal and polite Chinese terms include wàiguórén (t 外國人, s 外国人, lit. "outlander"), wàibīn (t 外賓, ...