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Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 1

JLPT level: N5

8 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 2

Meaning: ten

Kunyomi: とお, と, そ

Onyomi: ジュウ, ジッ, ジュッ

十

Radical

Radical: 十

Reading: じゅう

Meaning: ten, complete

Strokes: 2

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Examples

Examples with audio

十(じゅう)   10

十年(じゅうねん)   10 years

十分な(じゅうぶんな)   enough

十か月(じゅっかげつ)   10 months

十冊(じゅっさつ)   10 (bound objects)

十匹(じゅっぴき)   10 (animals)

十分(じゅっぷん)   10 minutes

十本(じゅっぽん)   10 (long cylindrical objects)

十日(とおか)   10 days, 10th of the month

十人十色(じゅうにんといろ)   several men, several minds

*二十才(はたち)   20 years old

*二十日(はつか)   20 days, 20th day of the month

Onyomi Examples

十 (ジュウ) ten, 10, ten years of age, book containing a collection of poems

十一 (ジュウイチ) eleven, 11, jack

90 (キュウジュウ) ninety, 90

第十 (ダイジュウ) tenth

十種競技 (ジッシュキョウギ) decathlon

十指 (ジッシ) the ten fingers

十指 (ジッシ) the ten fingers

十回 (ジッカイ) ten times

Kunyomi Examples

十 (じゅう) ten, 10, ten years of age, book containing a collection of poems

10日 (とおか) 10th day of the month, ten days

釈迦十 (しゃかじゅう) 10 of batons (in mekuri karuta)

十 (じゅう) ten, 10, ten years of age, book containing a collection of poems

10日 (とおか) 10th day of the month, ten days

算盤 (そろばん) abacus, soroban, calculation (esp. of profit and loss), reckoning

そろばん高い (そろばんだかい) calculating, miserly

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