以外

いがい
with the exception of

Reading

Readingいがい
N4 VocabJLPT N4suf.
Kanji以外

Meanings

  1. with the exception of
  1. excludingsuf.
  2. except (for)
  3. apart from
  4. other than
  5. besides
  6. in addition to
  7. outside (a boundary, scope, etc.)suf.

Homonyms

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Same reading (いがい)
意外 · unexpected

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

横断歩道の白いところ以外は地獄な。
おうだんほどうのしろいところいがいはじごくな。Anywhere except the white part of the crosswalk is hell.
場所として考える場合、現実以外に哲学の出発点はないのである。
ばしょとしてかんがえるばあい、げんじついがいにてつがくのしゅっぱつてんはないのである。In terms of place, there is no starting point for philosophy other than reality.
サラダ以外もちゃんと食べた方がいいよ
さらだいがいもちゃんとたべたほうがいいよYou should eat things other than salad too.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

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Practice Writing

Practice Writing 以外

The whole word, one canvas per character — with a guide, then twice from memory, every character checked