Outline

"Outline" in Japanese

あらまし

aramashi

((film industry) a prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay)

中抜き

uwatsuki

(line marking the boundary of an object figure)

主旨

shushi

(statement summarizing the important points of a text)

外形

gaikei

(outer shape of an object or figure)

概略

gairyaku

(general description of some subject)

概要

gaiyō

(general description of some subject)

概要

gaiyō

(preliminary plan of a project)

粗筋

arasuji

((film industry) a prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay)

荒筋

arasuji

((film industry) a prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay)

要旨

yōshi

(statement summarizing the important points of a text)

輪郭

rinkaku

(outer shape of an object or figure)

輪郭描写

rinkaku-byōsha

(sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.