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Keyword
ordinal number
  • No.
  • residence
Frequency
#160
Strokes
11
Grade
3
JLPT (old)
N2
Heisig
1327
Readings
ダイ100%
Mnemonic
Mourners queue along a bamboo rail to offer condolences, and the usher cuts a slash left on each wrist: first, second, third, an ordinal number for grief.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
第だい
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
Prefix
次し第だい
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; …
Suffix
第だい二に次じ世せ界かい大たい戦せん
Second World War (1939-1945); World War II; WWII; WW2
Noun
次し第だいに
gradually; by degrees; little by little; bit by bit
Adverb
第だい三さん者しゃ
third party; third person; outsider; disinterested person
Noun
第だい一いち人にん者しゃ
leading person; foremost figure
Noun
第だい一いっ線せん
the front (of a battlefield); forefront
Noun
第だい一いち
first; foremost; number one; most important; best; greatest; most; above all; besides; in any case; …
No-adjective
第だい二に
second
Noun
第だい一いっ声せい
first words said (e.g. when meeting someone); first thing out of one's mouth; first speech; inaugural address; first tone (in Chinese); level tone
Noun
第だい三さん国ごく
a third country
Noun
第だい一いち次じ世せ界かい大たい戦せん
First World War (1914-1918); World War I; WWI; WW1
Noun
第だい三さん紀き
Tertiary period
Noun
第だい一いち義ぎ
primary significance; primary importance; first principle; absolute truth; ultimate truth
Noun
手て当あたり次し第だい
using anything one can lay one's hands on; haphazardly; on the rebound; at random; indiscriminately
Adverb
落らく第だい
failure (in an examination); failing to advance (to the next year); falling short of the standard; not making the grade
Noun
及きゅう第だい
passing (an examination); making the grade
Noun
式しき次し第だい
program of a ceremony (programme)
Noun
第だい六ろっ感かん
the sixth sense; intuition; hunch
Noun