Kanji1 / 5
外 kanji
outside
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
Practice writing
Choose this kanji to write on five sheets. Save your practice to revisit it in My writing.
On readings
ガイゲ
Kun readings
そとほかはずすはずれると-
Words with 外
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —外鰓external gill
- —壁外outside a wall; beyond a wall; extramural
- —外城outer castle; outer fortification (surrounding the main castle)
- —区外outside (district, ward, borough, etc.)
- —外旋external rotation (of a limb towards the outside of the body)
- —外甥one's wife's nephew; one's sister's son
- —意想外unexpected; unsuspected
- —遠赤外far infrared
- —外為法Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act
- —外陰部external genitalia (esp. female); vulva
- —外交的diplomatic
- —外向性extroversion
- —外国製foreign-made
- —外祖父maternal grandfather
- —外野席outfield bleachers; outsider; onlooker; bystander
- —外用薬medicine for external use; external medicine
- —局外者outsider
- —時間外overtime; outside of hours (school, office, surgery, etc.)
- —社外秘company secret; information for internal use only
- —渉外部liaison department; public relations department