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order, ordering; beginning, start; foreword, preface, introduction
opportunity, occasion, chance; order, sequence; successor
rank, ranking order, hierarchy
preface, foreword, introduction
introduction
overture, prelude
opening (in a game of go, chess, etc.); early stages, initial phase, outset
curtain-raiser, prologue
incidentally, taking the opportunity, while one is at it, in passing, on the occasion
- 序章じょしょう
preface, foreword, introduction, introductory chapter; beginning, start
- 序論じょろん
introduction, preface
- 序の口じょのくち
the beginning (as in "this is only the beginning"); lowest division in sumo
- 序言じょげん
foreword, preface, introduction
- 序数じょすう
ordinal number
- 序奏じょそう
introduction
- 序詞じょし
foreword, preface, introduction; prefatory modifying statement (of a waka, etc.)
- 序でがあるついでがある
to have occasion to do
- 序ノ口格じょのくちかく
referee officiating the lowest division
- 序次じょじ
order, sequence
- 序開きじょびらき
beginnings, origins
- 序歯じょし
arranging seats by seniority
- 序二段じょにだん
jonidan (second lowest) division
- 序数詞じょすうし
ordinal numeral, ordinal number
- 序でながらついでながら
incidentally, taking the opportunity, while (you) are at it, on the occasion
- 序二段格じょにだんかく
referee officiating the second lowest division
- 序盤戦じょばんせん
early stages (of a game), opening phase
- 序破急じょはきゅう
artistic modulations in traditional Japanese performances, opening, middle and climax (end)