Kanji · JLPT N5 · Level 6
出 exit, go out
- Meaning
- exit, go out
- On reading
- シュツ
- Kun reading
- で(る)・だ(す)
Memory hook
Two mountain shapes stacked up: something pushing up and out of the ground. シュツ in compounds, で(る) to go out or だ(す) to take out.
Words that use 出
出る
でる
to go out
出口
でぐち
exit
How to write 出
Stroke order · 5 strokes
1
2
3
4
5
- 1. The vertical through the centre.
- 2. Vertical, then turn across to the right.
- 3. The vertical on the right.
- 4. Vertical, then turn across to the right.
- 5. The vertical on the right.
Stroke data from KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
General rules
- Top to bottom, left to right.
- Horizontal strokes before crossing vertical ones (十 = horizontal, then vertical).
- Outside before inside - but close a box last (口).
- A vertical that passes all the way through comes last (中).
- Left-falling diagonal before right-falling (大).
出 is taught on day 27 of the kanji course, alongside 入 帰 立, with two writing passes and a short quiz.