The kanji 第: meaning, readings and stroke order
第
- Meaning
- number in order
- On reading
- ダイ dai
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 竹 bamboo
- Level
- Level 3 · grade 3
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- thứ (số thứ tự) (đệ)
- Japanese
- なんばんめかを あらわす ことば。
- Korean
- 순서, 몇째 (제)
- Chinese
- 第(表示顺序)
Readings, words and example sentences
ダイ dai · on reading
第一
first, most important
安全が 第一です。
Safety comes first.
Practise writing 第 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 第 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 3 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.