Kanji N1

第: No., residence

第 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning No., residence, written with 11 strokes. It is read ダイ, テイ (on), and has no common kun reading. Children in Japan learn it in grade 3. You will see it in 次第 (しだい, depending on) and 第 (だい, prefix for forming ordinal numbers).

第

Meanings

  • No.
  • residence
Strokes11
JLPT levelN1
School gradeGrade 3
Frequency#160 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ダイ
  • テイ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • None in common use

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 第

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 次第しだい

    depending on

    JLPT N3
  • 第だい

    prefix for forming ordinal numbers

    JLPT N1
  • 落第らくだい

    failure (in an examination)

    JLPT N2
  • 第一だいいち

    first; foremost; number one

    JLPT N2
  • 次第にしだいに

    gradually; by degrees; little by little

  • 第一歩だいいっぽ

    first step

  • 第三者だいさんしゃ

    third party; third person; outsider

  • 第一線だいいっせん

    the front (of a battlefield); forefront

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.