Kana: そと

outside

Example sentence

外は雪が降っています。

そとはゆきがふっています。

It is snowing outside.

What 外 means

(そと) is an Japanese word meaning “outside”. It belongs to the Places & Travel topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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