Today’s second #kanji is #外, which is listed under #ゆうべ（タ）. Its つくり (the right side) looks like the katakana ト but 卜 in kanji is pronounced as うらな（い） and means “fortune telling.” Fortune telling is usually done in the morning, not in the evening, so combination of 夕 and 卜 makes it to mean “an exception” or “outside (of regularity).” There are 5 different ways of reading this kanji.
Meaning: outside, to miss
Reading: ガイ、ゲ、そと、ほか、はず
外見（ガイケン/そとみ）: outward appearance, external appearance
外人（ガイジン）: a foreigner, a gaijin
海外（カイガイ）: foreign countries, overseas
外科医（ゲカイ）: a surgeon
外道（ゲドウ）: a heretical teaching; a way of thinking contrary to the truth
外（そと）に出（で）る: to go out (of doors), to go out into the open air
蚊帳（かや）の外（そと）: outside a mosquito net; (be kept) in the dark (about…)
その外（ほか）: the rest, the others
外（はず）す: to remove, to detach, to turn away, to expel, to leave
外（はず）れる: to come off, to be wrong, to miss, to be excluded, to go against…
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