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Keyword
outside
Frequency
#81
Strokes
5
Grade
2
JLPT (old)
N4
Heisig
116
Readings
ガイ84%
そと5%
はず5%
ゲ3%
ほか2%
Mnemonic
While the evening is still bright, you plant a stick in the yard and practice a slash to the right with a new sword, safely outside.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in kanji
Used in vocabulary
外ほか
another place; some other place; somewhere else; outside; another (person or thing); other; different; something else; someone else; the rest; …
Noun
外がい国こく人じん
foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese
Noun
以い外がい
excluding; except (for); apart from; other than; besides; in addition to; outside (a boundary, scope, etc.)
Suffix
外そと
outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else; outside one's group (family, company, etc.)
Noun
外がい
outside ...; beyond ...; not included in ...
Suffix
海かい外がい
foreign; abroad; overseas
Noun
外がい交こう
diplomacy; selling (e.g. door-to-door); canvassing
Noun
外がい国こく
foreign country
Noun
外がい相しょう
Foreign Minister
Noun
外がい務む省しょう
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Noun
その外ほか
the rest; the others; in addition (to that); besides that; other than that; and other ...; and so forth; and the like; and what have you; et cetera
Expression
外がい務む
foreign affairs
Noun
内ない外がい
inside and outside; interior and exterior; inside and outside the country; home and abroad; domestic and foreign; around; about; approximately
Noun
外がい部ぶ
outside (e.g. of a building); exterior; outside (of a group, company, etc.); outside world
Noun
意い外がい
unexpected; surprising; unanticipated; strange; unforeseen
Na-adjective
郊こう外がい
suburb; residential area on the outskirt of a city; commuter belt
Noun
対たい外がい
external; foreign; with foreign countries; towards foreign countries
Prenominal
外はずれ
end; verge; extremity; tip; outskirts; miss; failure; blank (e.g. lottery ticket)
Noun
外がい出しゅつ
going out; outing; leaving (one's home, office, etc.)
Noun
外がい国こく語ご
foreign language
Noun
外げ科か
surgery (branch of medicine); department of surgery
Noun
例れい外がい
exception
Noun