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漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home

出: exit, leave

Also: go out, come out, put out, protrude

JLPT N55 strokesGrade 1Your ink: 白 Not met

凵 carries the meaning · 山 is drawn in

5 strokes

Five readings, and the words that use each

シュツshutsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 出身しゅっしんbirth place, alma mater
  • 出版社しゅっぱんしゃpublisher
  • 出席するしゅっせきするattend
  • 出発するしゅっぱつするdepart
  • 輸出するゆしゅつするexport
  • 外出するがいしゅつするgo out

スイsui · on'yomi

  • 出納すいとうreceipts and expenditure

でるderu · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 出るでるcome out [v.i.]

-で-de · kun'yomi

  • 出かけるでかけるgo out

だすdasu · kun'yomi

  • 出すだすput out, send [v.t.]
  • 引き出しひきだしdrawer

Also read -だす, いでる, いだす, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Ideogrammic compound (會意)止 foot + 凵 cave

To step out of a cave; to exit.

Source: Wiktionary, 出 (rev. 92491778), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Borders (凵) + a plant/foot stub (止). Imagine a young plant finally "growing out" and emerging from the dark "container" of the earth—the literal motion of an exit.”
From the 凵 container story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
山

Also built on mountain (山)

All 28
凵

Also built on container (凵)

All 5

出 gives its sound to

Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read シュツ

2 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read スイ

20 kanji share this on'yomiAll 20

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
出 exit · 凵
vs仙 hermit · 亻
出 has 凵 where 仙 has 亻.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · chū

Same form: 出 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
出 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
出 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin chū most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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