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外 kanji
outside
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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On readings
ガイゲ
Kun readings
そとほかはずすはずれると-
Words with 外
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —外銀foreign bank
- —表外outside (a table, list, etc.); non-jōyō (kanji or reading)
- —外妾foreigner's mistress
- —外積cross product; vector product; outer product
- —外端outer edge; outer end
- —外板panels, planks or plating on the hull of a ship or aircraft
- —州外out of state; outside the state
- —船外outside the boat (ship, spaceship, etc.); outboard; extravehicular
- —外挿extrapolation
- —管外outside the jurisdiction (of)
- —外光light from outside; natural light
- —外専gaijin hunter; person who only dates (non-Asian) foreigners
- —外合superior conjunction
- —外寸external dimensions; outer size
- —席外leaving one's seat
- —婚外extramarital (e.g. sex)
- —車外outside a car (train, bus, etc.)
- —外辺outskirts; periphery; environs
- —物外transcendent world; world outside of the material world; somewhere removed from the world
- —外教foreign religion (esp. Christianity); religion other than Buddhism