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
- —局外the outside
- —門外outside a gate; beyond one's area of expertise
- —等外also-ran; non-winner
- —学外outside the school; outside the university; unaffiliated with the university; off-campus; extramural
- —城外outside a castle
- —洛外outside Kyoto or the capital
- —理外supra-rational
- —限外excess; extra
- —外力external force
- —外分exterior division
- —外史unofficial history
- —外伝supplementary biography; anecdote; side story; spin-off
- —外地foreign land; overseas land; overseas territories of the Empire of Japan (e.g. Korea, Taiwan)
- —外在existing externally
- —外材foreign timber; imported lumber
- —外事foreign affairs
- —外物external object; foreign matter
- —外延extension; denotation
- —外商foreign merchant; foreign businessman; foreign company; foreign firm; out-of-store sales; calling on customers to take orders
- —外殻shell; crust