順 means “order, turn, sequence”

じゅん · jun

Also: obey, right

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ジュン

JLPT N2 · Taught in grade 4 · 12 strokes

The story

A river (川) beside a head (頁): picture heads bobbing along one after another like a stream. 順 is order: 順番 is your turn, 手順 the steps of a procedure, and 順調 means everything is going smoothly.

Used in 順番 (junban, turn/order), 順調 (junchou, going smoothly), and 手順 (tejun, procedure)

More from The Order of Things

• 了 finish
• 永 eternity
• 複 multiple
• 翌 next
• 補 supplement
• 旧 former
• 並 line up
• 逆 reverse
• 久 long time
• 停 stop

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.