- 次回【じかい】 - next time (occasion) 
- 次第【しだい】 - depending on, as soon as, immediately after, upon, as (e.g. "as one is told", "as one wishes"), whatever (e.g. "whatever is at hand"), order, program, programme, precedence, circumstances, course of events, state of things, reason 
- 次元【じげん】 - dimension, perspective, point of reference, level (of something) 
- 次に【つぎに】 - next, then, after that 
- 次々【つぎつぎ】 - in succession, one by one 
- 次第に【しだいに】 - gradually (progress into a state), in sequence, in order, in turn 
- 次ぐ【つぐ】 - to follow, to come after, to come next (to), to rank next (to), to rank second (to) 
- 次期【じき】 - next term, next period, next version, next release 
- 次長【じちょう】 - vice-chief, vice-director, assistant director, deputy manager 
- 目次【もくじ】 - table of contents, contents 
- 次男【じなん】 - second son 
- 次いで【ついで】 - next, secondly, subsequently 
- 手当たり次第【てあたりしだい】 - using anything one can lay one's hands on, haphazardly, on the rebound, at random, indiscriminately 
- 取り次ぐ【とりつぐ】 - to act as an agent for, to intermediate, to announce (someone's arrival), to answer (the door, the phone), to receive (a guest at reception), to usher in (a guest), to convey (a message) 
- 次官【じかん】 - vice-minister, undersecretary 
- 事務次官【じむじかん】 - permanent vice-president, undersecretary, vice-minister 
- 二次【にじ】 - second, secondary, quadratic (function, equation, etc.), second-order 
- 政務次官【せいむじかん】 - deputy minister, assistant minister 
- 相次ぐ【あいつぐ】 - to follow in succession, to happen one after another 
- 順次【じゅんじ】 - in order, sequential, seriatim