Kanji1 / 7
序 kanji
preface, beginning, order, precedence, occasion, chance, incidentally
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ジョ
Kun readings
ついでついで
Words with 序
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —序言foreword; preface; introduction
- —序奏introduction
- —序詞foreword; preface; introduction; prefatory modifying statement (of a waka, etc.)
- —序数ordinal number
- —序歯arranging seats by seniority
- —葉序phyllotaxis; phyllotaxy
- —庠序school
- —西序memorial rite involving the western sanctum
- —整序arranging in order
- —語序word order
- —層序succession of strata; stratigraphy
- —大序opening act (esp. in kabuki and jōruri); prologue
- —序の口the beginning (as in "this is only the beginning"); lowest division in sumo
- —序破急artistic modulations in traditional Japanese performances; opening, middle and climax (end)
- —序開きbeginnings; origins
- —序盤戦early stages (of a game); opening phase
- —序二段jonidan (second lowest) division
- —法秩序legal order
- —順序数ordinal number
- —層序学stratigraphy