次

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 二 (“lining things; 二 modified to resemble 冫”) + 欠 (“man”)

Han character

次 (radical 76 欠+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈一弓人 (IMNO), 一一弓人 (MMNO), four-corner 3718₂, composition ⿰冫欠)

1. order, sequence
2. next

Derived characters

• 盗 姿

References

• KangXi: page 565, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15992
• Dae Jaweon: page 954, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2133, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6B21

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Cantonese

Hanzi

次 (Jyutping ci3, Yale chi3)

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Hakka

Hanzi

次 (POJ tshṳ̀ (tshṳ³), Hagfa Pinyim ci4)

References

• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

次

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: じ (ji), し (shi)
• Kun: つぐ (tsugu), つぎ (tsugi)

Compounds

• 目次 (もくじ, mokuji)

Counter

次 (hiragana じ, romaji -ji)

1. number of times

Noun

次 (hiragana つぎ, romaji tsugi)

1. next, order, sequence, below
   • From the Emacs tutorial (English)

     では C-v （次の画面を見る）をタイプして次の画面に進んで下さい。（さあ、やってみましょう。コントロールキーを押しながら v です）

     では C-v （つぎのがめんをみる）をたいぷしてつぎのがめんにすすんでください。（さあ、やってみましょう。コントロールキーを押しながら v です）

     De wa C-v (tsugi no gamen o miru) o taipu shite tsugi no gamen ni susunde kudasai. (sā, yatte mishō. Kontorōrukī o oshi na gara v desu)

     Now type C-v (View next screen) to move to the next screen. (go ahead, do it by depressing the control key and v together)

次 (hiragana じ, romaji ji)

1. the next one (e.g. the next generation)

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Korean

Hanja

次 (cha) (hangeul 차, revised cha, McCune-Reischauer ch'a, Yale cha)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• audio

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Hanzi

次 (Pinyin cì (ci4), zí1ci (zi1ci2), Wade-Giles tz'u⁴, ²)

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Vietnamese

Particle

次 (thứ, thớ)