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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 予

序

Radical

Radical: 广

Reading: まだれ

Meaning: house on cliff

Strokes: 3

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Examples

Examples with audio

序文(じょぶん)   preface, foreword

序曲(じょきょく)   overture, prelude

序説(じょせつ)   introduction

序列(じょれつ)   rank, ranking order

順序(じゅんじょ)   order, sequence, procedure

秩序(ちつじょ)   order, regularity, system

Onyomi Examples

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

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

公序 (コウジョ) public order, public policy

西序 (セイジョ) memorial rite involving the western sanctum

Kunyomi Examples

序で (ついで) opportunity, occasion, chance, order, sequence, successor

序でに (ついでに) while (one is at it), when, on the occasion of, at the same time (as), on one's way (to), by the way, incidentally, in passing

序で (ついで) opportunity, occasion, chance, order, sequence, successor

序でに (ついでに) while (one is at it), when, on the occasion of, at the same time (as), on one's way (to), by the way, incidentally, in passing

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