Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N1

1160 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 7

Meaning: preface, beginning, order, precedence, occasion, chance, incidentally

Kunyomi: つい.で ついで

Onyomi: ジョ

Composition: 广

Radical

Radical: 广

Reading: まだれ

Meaning: house on cliff

Strokes: 3

广

Examples

Examples with audio

文(じょぶん)   preface, foreword

曲(じょきょく)   overture, prelude

説(じょせつ)   introduction

列(じょれつ)   rank, ranking order

(じゅんじょ)   order, sequence, procedure

(ちつじょ)   order, regularity, system

Onyomi Examples

ジョ order, ordering, beginning, start, foreword, preface, introduction, opening of a song (in gagaku or noh)

ジョバン opening (in a game of go, chess, etc.), early stages, initial phase, outset

コウジョ public order, public policy

西 セイジョ memorial rite involving the western sanctum

Kunyomi Examples

ついで opportunity, occasion, chance, order, sequence, successor

でに ついでに incidentally, taking the opportunity, while (you) are at it, on the occasion

ついで opportunity, occasion, chance, order, sequence, successor

でに ついでに incidentally, taking the opportunity, while (you) are at it, on the occasion