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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
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Kun readings
そとほかはずすはずれると-
Words with 外
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —外転abduction; eversion; exodeviation; exstrophy
- —日外at one time; some time ago; once
- —外帯area on the convex side of a mountain arc or a crescent-shaped archipelago; area of southwestern Japan south of the Median Tectonic Line
- —山外Off-Mountain School (of Song-period Tiantai Buddhism)
- —機外outside a plane; outboard
- —外環outer ring; outer loop
- —外官external sense
- —外大university of foreign studies; university specializing in foreign languages
- —外群outgroup
- —外臣foreign retainer
- —化外benighted lands outside of imperial influence
- —湾外beyond the bay
- —島外off an island; away from an island; off-island
- —外政foreign policy; diplomatic affairs
- —外被(protective) coat; casing; housing; jacket
- —外航foreign voyage; outward voyage
- —外生exogenous; heterogenous; ectotrophic; extraneous
- —外寇foreign invasion; foreign attack; foreign force
- —外陰vulva; pudenda
- —外名exonym; xenonym