preface, beginning, order, precedence, occasion, chance, incidentally

Radicals

Common words

• 序盤【じょばん】
  opening (in a game of go, chess, etc.), early stages, initial phase, outset
• 序列【じょれつ】
  rank, ranking order, hierarchy
• 年功序列【ねんこうじょれつ】
  seniority by length of service
• 順序【じゅんじょ】
  order, sequence, procedure
• 無秩序【むちつじょ】
  disorder, chaos, confusion
• 序文【じょぶん】
  preface, foreword, introduction
• 序曲【じょきょく】
  overture, prelude
• 序二段【じょにだん】
  jonidan (second lowest) division
• 公序【こうじょ】
  public order, public policy
• 序幕【じょまく】
  curtain-raiser, prologue
• 序章【じょしょう】
  preface, foreword, introduction, introductory chapter, beginning, start
• 序説【じょせつ】
  introduction
• 序の口【じょのくち】
  the beginning (as in "this is only the beginning"), lowest division in sumo
• 秩序【ちつじょ】
  order, discipline, regularity, system, method