第

Stroke order

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

• 𭊗, 𡠨, 𭞟, 𰜷, 𭧞, 𬄏, 𫦒

• 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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *diːls) : semantic 𥫗 (“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.

Alternatively, may have originally been written 弟.

Karlgren (1956: 14) connects this word with → tī 梯 ‘ladder’.

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

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

第

1. (Cantonese) different; another; other

Contraction of 第一 (tē-it, “first”).

第

1. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) most

• “Entry #7716”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

From 是 or 然.

第

1. (Shanghainese, obselete) this

This pronunciation was used in both Songjiang and urban Shanghai in the 19th Century, but is obsolete in all forms of modern Shanghainese, having been replaced by the glottalized variant 迭. The character 第 is still occasionally used to write the latter pronunciation.

Others:

• → Khmer: ទី (tii)

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• 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)

第(だい) • (dai-) 

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

From Middle Chinese 第 (MC dejH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

第

Wikisource

第 (eumhun 차례(次例) 제)

1. hanja form^? of 제 (“turn; sequence”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

第: Hán Nôm readings: đệ

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