出 has an unusually high number of readings: it's the first syllable in いだす, いでる, だす, and でる (all kun readings), and its on readings are しゅつ and すい.
Just on its own, pronounced で, it can mean 'coming out, going out', 'start', 'origins, background'.
The number of compounds using this kanji is also higher than most.
Even worse, the two most important meanings 出る （でる） and 出来る (できる), each have a number of different meanings: 出る means 'to go out, to leave', but also 'to appear', 'to be published', and 'to answer (phone or door)'. 出来る, on the other hand, can mean 'to be able to', but that reading is actually often written using hiragana. This is not the case for the other meanings, which include 'to be ready/completed', 'to be made/built', 'to be good at', 'to be permitted (to do)'.
And that's not all, there's also a verb 出す (だす), which again means a bunch of things like 'to go out', 'to put out', 'to show', 'to turn in (e.g. homework)', 'to publish', 'to begin'.
No wonder it ranks so high.
Here's how 出 combines with hiragana, and with the kanji we already know:
- 出会い (であい) - encounter
- 出会う (であう) - to meet by chance; to have a date
- 人出 (ひとで) - crowd, turnout
- 日の出 (ひので) or 日出 (にっしゅつ, note the completely different pronunciation!) - sunrise
- 出国 (しゅうこく) - leaving a country
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