Kanji
N1 7 strokes Grade 5 freq #1160

preface, beginning, order, precedence, occasion

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

dotted cliff madare

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

order; discipline
opening (in a game of go, chess, etc.)
rank; ranking order
order; sequence
seniority by length of service
disorder; chaos
preface; foreword
overture; prelude
jonidan (second lowest) division
public order; public policy

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

the beginning (as in "this is only the beginning")
opportunity; occasion

Example sentences

After decades of civil war, order was restored.

All social animals use some methods of communication to exchange information and to maintain an orderly community.

Nobody could remember the sequence of events.

Some say society should be corrected first, but that is to put the cart before the horse.