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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
- —海外在住residing abroad
- —外国の方foreigner; foreign person; non-national
- —心外膜炎pericarditis
- —雲外蒼天light at the end of the tunnel; relief after overcoming hardship; open sky beyond the clouds
- —限外発行excess issue of banknotes; overissue of banknotes
- —対外試合(practice) match against an outside team; match against another school; interschool game
- —外水氾濫flooding caused by overflowing of rivers (e.g. breaching levee banks)
- —救急外来emergency outpatient care
- —外閉鎖筋obturatorius externus muscle
- —中外製薬Chugai Pharmaceutical
- —外的要因external factor; external cause; extrinsic factor
- —外交委員長head of the Foreign Relations Committee
- —外国人登録alien registration; registration of foreigners
- —外国投資家foreign investor
- —主席外交官doyen of the diplomatic corps
- —首相兼外相prime minister also serving as foreign minister
- —制限外の字forbidden kanji
- —在留外国人foreign residents
- —基準外賃金extra wages
- —外貨準備高total amount of foreign currency reserves; foreign exchange reserves