第

See also: 笫 and 笰

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

第 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹弓中竹 (HNLH), four-corner 8822₇, composition ⿱⺮𢎨)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 881, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25943
• Dae Jaweon: page 1308, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2959, character 9
• Unihan data for U+7B2C

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Chinese

trad.		第
simp. #		第

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (弟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
梯	*tʰiːl
睇	*tʰiːl, *diːls
涕	*tʰiːlʔ, *tʰiːls
挮	*tʰiːlʔ
鬀	*tʰiːls, *diːls
剃	*tʰiːls
綈	*diːl
蕛	*diːl
稊	*diːl
苐	*diːl
鵜	*diːl
銻	*diːl
鮷	*diːl
罤	*diːl
弟	*diːlʔ, *diːls
娣	*diːlʔ, *diːls
悌	*diːlʔ, *diːls
第	*diːls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *diːls) : semantic ⺮ (“bamboo”) + phonetic 弟 (OC *diːlʔ, *diːls).

竹 here refers to the bamboo strips used for writing (e.g. accounting, classification) in ancient times. See also 等.

Etymology 1

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Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 第

1. sequence; number
2. grade; degree
3. (historical) rank in the imperial examinations
4. Ordinal number marker, used before a number to make the number ordinal.

   第二  ―  dì'èr  ―  second

   第十  ―  dìshí  ―  tenth

   安全第一  ―  ānquán dìyī  ―  safety first

5. a surname

Etymology 2

Contraction of 第二 (dai6 ji6, “second”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 第

1. (Cantonese) different; another; other

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (第):

• → Japanese: 第(だい) (dai)
• → Korean: 제(第) (je)
• → Vietnamese: đệ (第)

Others:

• → Khmer: ទី (tii)

Further reading

• “Entry #7716”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji

第

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: だい (dai, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: てい (tei)
• Kun: ついで (tsuide, 第で); やしき (yashiki, 第); ただ (tada)

Alternative forms

• (ryakuji) 㐧 [U+3427]

Prefix

Kanji in this term
第
だい Grade: 3
on'yomi

第(だい) or 第(prefix) • (dai or prefix) [[Category:Japanese
|たい]]

1. ordinal marker, often with affix 号

   第(だい)２号(にごう)

   dai-ni gō

   The 2nd

   第(だい)１３話(じゅうさんわ)

   dai-jūsan wa

   Chapter 13

Compounds

Compounds

• 第(だい)一(いち) (daīchi)
• 第(だい)二(に) (daini)
• 第(だい)三(さん)紀(き) (daisanki)
• 第(だい)三(さん)者(しゃ) (daisansha)
• 第(だい)四(よん)紀(き) (daiyonki)
• 第(だい)四(し)紀(き) (daishiki)
• 第(だい)七(しち)日(にち) (daishichinichi)
• 次(し)第(だい) (shidai)
• 落(らく)第(だい) (rakudai)

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Korean

Hanja

第 • (je) (hangeul 제, revised je, McCune–Reischauer che, Yale cey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 第 (đệ)

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