Kanji

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

Onyomi: ジュウ ジッ ジュッ

Radical

Radical:

Reading: じゅう

Meaning: ten, complete

Strokes: 2

Examples

Examples with audio

(じゅう)   10

年(じゅうねん)   10 years

分な(じゅうぶんな)   enough

か月(じゅっかげつ)   10 months

冊(じゅっさつ)   10 (bound objects)

匹(じゅっぴき)   10 (animals)

分(じゅっぷん)   10 minutes

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

日(とおか)   10 days, 10th of the month

色(じゅうにんといろ)   several men, several minds

*二才(はたち)   20 years old

*二日(はつか)   20 days, 20th day of the month

Onyomi Examples

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

ジュウイチ eleven, 11, jack (playing card), Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax), Horsfield's hawk cuckoo

90 キュウジュウ ninety, 90

釈迦 シャカジュウ 10 of batons (in mekuri karuta)

種競技 ジッシュキョウギ decathlon

ジッシ the ten fingers

ジッシ the ten fingers

ジッカイ ten times

Kunyomi Examples

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

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