Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N3

222 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 6

Meaning: next, order, sequence

Kunyomi: つ.ぐ つぎ

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: あくび

Meaning: lack, yawn

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

回(じかい)   next time

週(じしゅう)   next week

男(じなん)   second son

(もくじ)   table of contents

第に(しだいに)   gradually

ぐ(あいつぐ)   follow in succession

取りぐ(とりつぐ)   relay, act as an agent, handle

(つぎ)   next

Onyomi Examples

next, hypo- (i.e. containing an element with low valence), order, sequence, time, times

ジカイ next time (occasion)

サンジ third, tertiary, cubic (function, equation, etc.), third-order

スウジ several times

第に シダイニ gradually (progress into a state), in sequence, in order, in turn

シダイ depending on, as soon as, immediately after, upon, as (e.g. "as one is told", "as one wishes"), whatever (e.g. "whatever is at hand"), order, program, programme, precedence, circumstances, course of events, state of things, reason

ロジ way, path, route, along the way, along the road

Kunyomi Examples

つぐ to rank next to, to come after

ぐ身 つぐみ next in line, heir

つぎ next, following, subsequent, stage, station

つぎつぎ in succession, one by one

とりつぎ agency, commission, distributor, intermediation, reception (of guests), conveyance (of messages)

中継ぎ なかつぎ joining, joint, intermediation, acting as an intermediary, relaying, taking over, middle relief pitcher, middle reliever, pole-shaped item with a join in the middle, tea container with a lid that is the same size as the body