Onyomi: ジョ · Kunyomi: つい.で, ついで · Meanings: beginning, chance, incidentally, occasion, order, precedence, preface
Kanji for beginning, chance, incidentally, occasion, order
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| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 序で | ついで | opportunity, occasion, chance | common JLPT-N2 Noun |
| 序 | じょ | order, ordering | Noun |
| 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 | common Adverb (fukushi) |
| 序文 | じょぶん | preface, foreword, introduction | Noun |
| 序章 | じょしょう | preface, foreword, introduction, introductory chapter | Noun |
| 序曲 | じょきょく | overture, prelude | Noun |
| 序列 | じょれつ | rank, ranking order, hierarchy | common Noun |
| 序盤 | じょばん | opening (in a game of go, chess, etc.) | common Noun |
| 序二段 | じょにだん | jonidan (second lowest) division | Noun |
| 序幕 | じょまく | curtain-raiser, prologue | Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no' |