序曲 じょきょく overture #23,233 Meanings noun overture; prelude Its kanji 序 ジョ · つい.で、ついで preface, beginning, order, precedence, occasion, chance, incidentally 曲 キョク · ま.がる、ま.げる、くま bend, music, melody, composition, pleasure, injustice, fault, curve, crooked, perverse, lean