序曲

Reading

Kana: じょきょく

Romaji: jokyoku

Definition

noun

1

overture; prelude

Kanji

序

Readings: ジョ、 つい.で、 ついで

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

曲

Readings: キョク、 ま.がる、 ま.げる、 くま

Meanings: bend, music, melody, composition, pleasure, injustice, fault, curve, crooked, perverse, lean