Meanings
- obey
- order
- turn
- right
- docility
- occasion
順 is a JLPT N2 kanji meaning obey, order, turn, written with 12 strokes. It is read ジュン (on), and has no common kun reading. Children in Japan learn it in grade 4. You will see it in 順調 (じゅんちょう, favourable) and 順 (じゅん, order).
On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.
Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.
Every stroke in order, the live one in vermilion. Replay as often as you like.
Trace each stroke in order. Wrong direction or wrong order gets flagged right away.
Your turn: draw stroke 1 of 12. Start at the dot.
The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.
order; turn; sorting
in order; in turn
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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.