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preface
Stroke count: 7

Readings

On readingジョ
Kun readingつい.で、ついで
JLPT level: N1JōyōGrade 5

Meanings

  1. prefaceRtK
    彼はその戯曲にすばらしい序文を書いた。He wrote a fine preface to the play.tatoeba
  2. beginning
  3. chance
  4. incidentally
  5. occasion
  6. order
    数十年の内戦の後に秩序が回復した。After decades of civil war, order was restored.tatoeba
  7. precedence
  1. opportunity
  2. sequence

Popular Usage

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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cave · beforehand

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1720

Compound words

順序じゅんじょ
order; sequence; procedure
序でついで
opportunity; occasion; chance; order; sequence
序曲じょきょく
overture; prelude
序説じょせつ
introduction
序盤じょばん
opening (in a game of go, chess, etc.); early stages; initial phase; outset
序文じょぶん
preface; foreword; introduction
序幕じょまく
curtain-raiser; prologue
序列じょれつ
rank; ranking order; hierarchy
秩序ちつじょ
order; discipline; regularity; system; method
無秩序むちつじょ
disorder; chaos; confusion
年功序列ねんこうじょれつ
seniority by length of service
公序良俗こうじょりょうぞく
public order and morals; social standards; public policy
機序きじょ
mechanism
次序じじょ
order
自序じじょ
author's own preface
序についでに
while (one is at it)
庠序しょうじょ
school
序でについでに
while (one is at it)
法秩序ほうちつじょ
legal order
安寧秩序あんねいちつじょ
peace and order
国際秩序こくさいちつじょ
international order
社会秩序しゃかいちつじょ
social order
順序通りじゅんじょどおり
in (the proper) order
順序不同じゅんじょふどう
(listed in) no particular order

Additional Examples

日本では給料は大体年功序列による。
In Japan wages are usually in proportion to seniority.tatoeba
誰も事件の順序を思い出すことができなかった。
Nobody could remember the sequence of events.tatoeba

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