See 外人 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Japanese terms with multiple readings",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"ja:People"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_text": "Adjective 疎い (utoi, “unacquainted”) in attributive form and 人 (hito, “person”).\nObsolete usage, reflecting unstandardized orthography with inflecting word endings omitted from the spellings.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "外人",
"ruby": [
[
"外",
"うとき"
],
[
"人",
"ひと"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "utoki hito",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "うとき ひと"
},
"expansion": "外(うとき)人(ひと) • (utoki hito)",
"name": "ja-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Japanese terms with obsolete senses",
"Japanese terms with quotations",
"Requests for translations of Japanese quotations",
"Requests for transliteration of Japanese quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"text": "c. 11th century: Ruiju Myōgishō\n外人ウトキ人",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"an estranged or unfamiliar person"
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) an estranged or unfamiliar person"
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ɯ̟to̞kʲi çito̞]"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Gaijin"
],
"word": "外人"
}
Download raw JSONL data for 外人 meaning in Japanese (8.3kB)
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (5ee713e and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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