outside; foreign

Builds 65 distinct compound words — ranked #61 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: ガイ・ゲ
訓 kun: そと・ほか・はず.す

Outside, hence foreign. 外国 abroad, 以外 apart from, 海外 overseas.

The ten most common compounds built on 外. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

65compounds built

1,598times those words occur

#62by productivity alone

#88by how often it turns up

Where 外 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 外. Each one opens its own map.

人person外国人#1 行go; conduct; line海外旅行#3 出come out; put out外出#4 見see外見#11 国country外国、外国人、外国語#27 食eat; food外食#32 語language; word; tell外国語#53

Words built on 外

外そと233 uses

外出がいしゅつ232 uses

外国がいこく215 uses

以外いがい128 uses

海外かいがい116 uses

外国人98 uses

外国語62 uses

海外旅行38 uses

外見がいけん37 uses

外すはずす34 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.