# 第 — Ordinal Number Prefix

Frequency rank 33 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

You will meet this constantly in published Japanese — newspapers, books, signs, and dates.

More common than 物 (Thing), less common than 学 (Study).

- On’yomi: だい
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 竹 Bamboo (Kangxi 118)
- Frequency path: Level I of XX
- School grade: 3
- Strokes: 11

At the finish line, a judge hangs numbered tags around the runners’ necks: first, second, third.

In words:

- 第 だい — ordinal
- 第一 だいいち — first;foremost;# 1
- 次第 しだい — (1) order,precedence,(2) circumstances,(3) immediate(ly)

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