次 — 6 strokes ／ Radical「欠」
道8Elementary year 3 ／ 6 strokes ／ Radical「欠」
- On
- ジ・シじ・し · ji · shi
- Kun
- つぎ・つ(ぐ)tsugi · tsu(gu)
- Meaning
- next, order
Stroke order
Origin
冫 (breath from the mouth) + 欠 (a person with an open mouth) sighing; it came to mean what comes after first: next.
Readings and examples
| Onジじji | 次回じかい次元じげん目次もくじ |
|---|---|
| Onシしshi | 次第しだい |
| Kunつぐtsugu | 次ぐつぐ次いで〔副〕ついで〔ふく〕 Compare: 継ぐ |
| Kunつぎtsugi | 次つぎ次につぎに次々とつぎつぎと |
Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.
Compounds
- 次回じかい
next time
- 目次もくじ
table of contents
- 次第しだい
- 漸次ぜんじ
- 逐次ちくじ
- 屢次るじ
Example
次の えきで おります。
I get off at the next station.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)