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Level I of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 33 / 2,608

Ordinal Number Prefix

On’yomi
だい
Kun’yomi
—
Radical
竹 Bamboo (Kangxi 118)
School grade
3
Strokes
11

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

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

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

In words

第 だい ordinalN1
第一 だいいち first;foremost;# 1N1
次第 しだい (1) order,precedence,(2) circumstances,(3) immediate(ly)N3

第 is rank 33 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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