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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Kun readings
そとほかはずすはずれると-
Words with 外
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —国外追放deportation; expulsion from the country
- —在外投票overseas ballot
- —対外投資foreign investment
- —外剛内柔being tough on the outside but soft at heart; a faint-hearted person pretending to be brave
- —内剛外柔gentle on the outside but tough on the inside; an iron hand in a velvet glove
- —有頂天外beside oneself with joy; in raptures; in an ecstasy of delight
- —資源外交resources diplomacy
- —外国生活life in a foreign country; living abroad
- —外交手腕diplomatic finesse; skill(s) in diplomacy
- —心外千万being totally upset (by); being completely nonplussed (by); being mortified (at); feeling aggrieved (at); finding (it) highly regrettable
- —善隣外交good-neighbor diplomacy; a good-neighbor policy
- —対外関係foreign relations; international relations; external relations; diplomacy
- —内外多事things being very eventful at home and abroad
- —軟弱外交weak foreign policy; weak-kneed diplomacy
- —場外市場over-the-counter market; OTC market; retail market next to a wholesale market; outer market
- —不良外人delinquent foreigner; foreign hoodlum
- —無断外泊staying out overnight without giving notice; spending night(s) away from home without permission (leave)
- —弱腰外交weak foreign policy; weak-kneed diplomacy
- —洛中洛外in and around the city of Kyoto
- —追従外交sycophantic diplomacy; servile diplomacy