| 81 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 138 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 125 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 146 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 352 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 94 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 12 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 67 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.2 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 51 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 51 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 27 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 45 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 2464 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1246 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1712 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1601 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 358 | Morohashi |
| 1968 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 112 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1587 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1711 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 50 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 93 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
49 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 今 【コン】 the current ..., this, today's ...
- 今夏 【コンカ】 this summer, next summer, last summer
- 往古来今 【オウコライコン】 in all ages, since antiquity
- 当今 【トウコン】 nowadays, these days, at present
- 今古 【キンコ】 now and anciently
- 今上 【キンジョウ】 His Majesty the Emperor, the present emperor, the reigning emperor
Kun reading compounds
- 今 【いま】 now, the present time, just now, soon, immediately, another, more
- 今に 【いまに】 before long, even now
- 中今 【なかいま】 the present (esp. as a privileged moment in eternity)
- 今が今 【いまがいま】 just now
Readings
- Japanese names:
- な
- Korean:
- geum
Spanish
- ahora
- momento actual
Portuguese
- agora
French
- maintenant
| 2860 | 2001 Kanji |
| 2a2.10 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-2-2 | SKIP code |
| 2-3-1 | SKIP code |
| 8020.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-26-03 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 4eca | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
222 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 次 【ジ】 next, hypo- (i.e. containing an element with low valence), order, sequence, time, times
- 次回 【ジカイ】 next time (occasion)
- 三次 【サンジ】 third, tertiary, cubic (function, equation, etc.), third-order
- 数次 【スウジ】 several times
- 次第に 【シダイニ】 gradually (progress into a state), in sequence, in order, in turn
- 次第 【シダイ】 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
- 路次 【ロジ】 way, path, route, along the way, along the road
Kun reading compounds
- 次ぐ 【つぐ】 to follow, to come after, to come next (to), to rank next (to), to rank second (to)
- 次ぐ身 【つぐみ】 next in line, heir
- 次 【つぎ】 next, following, subsequent, stage, station
- 次々 【つぎつぎ】 in succession, one by one
- 五十三次 【ごじゅうさんつぎ】 fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)
- 中継ぎ 【なかつぎ】 joining, joint, intermediation, acting as an intermediary, relaying, taking over, middle relief pitcher, middle reliever, pole-shaped item with a join in the middle, tea container with a lid that is the same size as the body
Readings
- Japanese names:
- き、 すき、 つぐ、 よし
- Korean:
- cha
Spanish
- siguiente
- seguir
Portuguese
- próximo
- pedido
- seqüência
French
- suivant
- ordre
- successivement
| 227 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 308 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 292 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 235 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 638 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 239 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 648 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 226 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 384 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 385 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 660 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1120 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 58 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 38 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 39 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 482 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 15992P | Morohashi |
| 54 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2929 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 471 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 510 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 150 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 268 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 362 | 2001 Kanji |
| 2b4.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-2-4 | SKIP code |
| 3718.2 | Four corner code |
| 1-28-01 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 6b21 | Unicode hex code |