Kanji1 / 5
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
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Words with 外
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —基本外non-basic
- —外眼筋extraocular muscles
- —表外字non-jōyō kanji; kanji not included in the common-use kanji list
- —想定外beyond expectations; beyond what one expected; not foreseen; exceeding assumptions
- —外出着street clothes
- —意外性unexpectedness; unpredictability; tendency to surprise; element of surprise
- —外発的extrinsic
- —外向的extroverted; outgoing
- —閣外相minister outside the cabinet; junior minister
- —外交家diplomat; diplomatic person
- —外斜視exotropia; divergent strabismus
- —外省人person from outside one's own province (in China); person who moved to Taiwan from the continent after WWII; mainlander
- —外洋性pelagic
- —人外境uninhabited area
- —番外地location without an address; unnumbered plot of land
- —補外法extrapolation
- —外環道outer ring road; orbital road
- —外交配outcrossing; outbreeding
- —外側溝lateral sulcus (brain structure); Sylvian fissure; lateral fissure
- —頭蓋外extracranial