出
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to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield; to go beyond; to exceed; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 凵 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 出
- Common rank
- #59
- Unicode
- U+51FA
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 出 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A sprout 屮 growing out of a container 凵
Components 屮 凵
How to remember it
exit · Heisig RSH #689
山 mountain
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 出
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 出来 | to come out; to appear; to arise | |
| 出来 | (after a verb, indicates coming out, completion of an action, or ability to discern or det… | |
| 出去 | to go out | |
| 出人头地 | to stand out among one's peers (idiom); to excel | |
| 出家人 | monk; nun (Buddhist or Daoist) | |
| 出生地 | birthplace | |
| 出国 | to go abroad; to leave the country | |
| 出山 | to leave the mountain (of a hermit); to come out of obscurity to a government job; to take… | |
| 出水 | to discharge water; to appear out of the water; to break the surface | |
| 出头 | to get out of a predicament; to stick out; to take the initiative; remaining odd fraction … | |
| 出生 | to be born | |
| 生出 | to give birth; to grow (whiskers etc); to generate; to produce | |
| 出马 | to set out (on a campaign); to stand for election; to throw one's cap in the ring | |
| 出自 | to come from | |
| 出家 | to enter monastic life; to become a monk or nun | |
| 出海 | to go out to sea; (neologism) to expand into overseas markets | |
| 出水口 | water outlet; drainage outlet | |
| 大打出手 | to come to blows; to start a fight; (derived from the term for a type of theatrical fight … | |
| 出动 | to start out on a trip; to dispatch troops | |
| 出风头 | to push oneself forward; to seek fame; to be in the limelight; same as 出鋒頭|出锋头[chu1 feng1 … |
Sound family
These characters use 出 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 出 sound part | to go out, to send out; stand; produce | |
| 屈 | to bend, to flex; bent, crooked, crouched | |
| 拙 | awkward, clumsy; dull, stupid | |
| 础 | foundation stone, plinth; basis | |
| 黜 | to dismiss; to downgrade, to demote | |
| 咄 | a cry of anger | |
| 绌 | to stitch, to sew; insufficient | |
| 诎 | to stutter, to exhaust; to crouch, to bend |