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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
- —外核outer core (of Earth)
- —訴外party not named in (this) court case; non-party; person outside a suit
- —外舅father-in-law (of the husband)
- —外姑mother-in-law (of the husband)
- —外化externalization
- —外免foreign (driver's) licence
- —都外outside (the metropolis of) Tokyo
- —外廷public area of the Imperial Palace where the emperor carries out official business
- —外朝public area of the Imperial Palace where the emperor carries out official business; imperial palace of a foreign country
- —盤外off the board (go, shogi, etc.)
- —塞外outside a fort; outside the Great Wall of China
- —担外not being in charge (e.g. of a class, in the case of music, art, etc. teachers)
- —所外outside an office, laboratory, power plant, etc.
- —店外outside a store; outside a shop
- —外曲arrangement (of a traditional Japanese piece of music) for shakuhachi, kokyū, koto, etc.
- —外炎outer cone (of a flame); oxidizing flame
- —境外outside the grounds (of a temple or shrine)
- —道外outside Hokkaido
- —外膜outer membrane; adventitia
- —外勢influence (of stones)