Kanji1 / 5
外 kanji
outside
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ガイゲ
Kun readings
そとほかはずすはずれると-
Words with 外
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —外敵foreign enemy; outside invader
- —外的external; outside
- —外典Apocrypha (i.e. as opposed to the Biblical canon); non-Buddhist writings (esp. Confucian writings)
- —外灯outside light
- —外泊staying somewhere else (overnight); spending the night away (e.g. from home); going home (e.g. from hospital) for the night; sleepover
- —外皮skin; outer skin; integument; husk; hull; shell; crust; rind; envelope; exodermis; pellicle
- —外聞reputation; respectability; honour; honor
- —外用external use
- —外乱noise (interference)
- —閣外outside the Cabinet
- —遣外dispatched abroad; despatched abroad
- —言外unexpressed; unspoken; implied; implicit
- —口外revealing (information, a secret, etc.); disclosure; telling; letting out
- —校外out-of-school; off-campus
- —構外off grounds; outside the premises
- —最外outer-most
- —紫外ultraviolet; UV
- —室外outside (the room, building); outdoors
- —人外uninhabited area; acting inhumanly; inhuman person; nonhuman life (usu. sentient)
- —赤外infrared