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出　means go out from ～.

For example,出血　出国　出身　出航　外出　出席　出演

　Each meanings are,　　　　　　blood coming out,go out of the country,a person from ～,sail,

go out,attend,appear

the Kanji 出 literally means "Out of" "Leave" or "Exit". On it's own, it is pronounced "shutsu" (in the common on'yomi reading, that is). However, a single Kanji is usually not used on it's own, and needs other characters combined with it to give it a better meaning.

Also, bare in mind that the Kanji's readings (on'yomi and kun'yomi-- the Chinese and Japanese readings, respectively) change. There are many on and kun readings for each character, and they are all applied in different reading depending on the sentence the character is being used in.

Here are some uses of 出:

出口は目の前にあります (deguchi wa me no mae ni arimasu)

Means: the exit is in front of you

思い出 (omoide)

Means: memories

ここから抜け出す (kara nukedasu)

Means: get out of here

クローゼットから出てくる (kurozetto ga detekuru)

Means: come out of the closet (hehe ^__^ )

Well, it hugely depends on what comes after it.

出る　- to leave

出す - to take out

出口 - exit

思い出 - memory

It usually denotes the idea of taking something out or leaving, for something to move out of a bigger group.

After the masu-stem of certain verbs it also conveys the idea of that starting.

走りだす - to begin running, to burst off

飛び出す - to jump out, to fly off

Both of these focus rather on it the start of it rather than the real process comapred to their normal counterparts: 走る, 飛ぶ.

I have also heard 騒ぎ出す.　

to exit, to come out, to leave, etc. you may have to extrapolate a bit in compound words like: 出身 (しゅっしん) meaning a person's origin, or where they are from, it can literally be interpreted as : coming out of one's station in life.

kun'yomi: い.だす、 い.でる、 だ.す、 -だ.す、 -で、 で.る

on'yomi: シュツ、 スイ