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Kanji Information Sheet for 十 ( 
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| English: ten | On-Yomi: ジュウ ジッ ジュッ | Kun-Yomi: とお と い か ぎ さ し そ そう ち とう ね ま る わ |
Bushu (Radical) Info: 十 (じゅう) – cross
Henshall Mnemonic: all points considered, ten out of ten
Levels: JLPT N5 | JLPT 4 (old) | Grade 1
Frequency: #8 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #8 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
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JLPT N5 Words
- 二十歳 [はたち]
(n) (1) 20 years old; (2) 20th year [K] [D] [Jisho] - 二十日 [はつか]
(n) twenty days; twentieth (day of the month) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 十 [じゅう]
(num) 10; ten [K] [D] [Jisho] - 十 [とお]
(num) 10; ten [K] [D] [Jisho] - 十一月 [じゅういちがつ]
(n-adv) November [K] [D] [Jisho] - 十月 [じゅうがつ]
(n-adv) October [K] [D] [Jisho] - 十二月 [じゅうにがつ]
(n-adv) December [K] [D] [Jisho] - 十日 [とおか]
ten days; the tenth (day of the month) [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N4 Words
- 十分 [じゅうぶん]
(adj-na,adv,n,vs) (1) plenty; enough; sufficient; satisfactory; adequate; (2) division into ten; (3) perfect; thorough; fully; in full [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N2 Words
JLPT N1 Words
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 十万 [じゅうまん]
100,000; hundred thousand [K] [D] [Jisho] - 三十 [さんじゅう]
(num) thirty [K] [D] [Jisho] - 十両 [じゅうりょう]
(n) junior-grade sumo wrestler [K] [D] [Jisho] - 十六 [じゅうろく]
16; sixteen [K] [D] [Jisho] - 三十日 [みそか]
(n) last day of month [K] [D] [Jisho] - 三十八度線 [さんじゅうはちどせん]
the Thirty-eighth Parallel [K] [D] [Jisho] - 五十 [ごじゅう]
(n) fifty [K] [D] [Jisho] - 二十 [はたち]
(n) (1) 20 years old; (2) 20th year [K] [D] [Jisho] - 五十三次 [ごじゅうさんつぎ]
(n) the 53 Toukaidou stages [K] [D] [Jisho] - 二十四時間制 [にじゅうよじかんせい]
(n) around-the-clock system [K] [D] [Jisho] - 二十世紀 [にじっせいき]
twentieth century [K] [D] [Jisho] - 九十 [きゅうじゅう]
ninety [K] [D] [Jisho] - 何十 [なんじゅう]
several tens [K] [D] [Jisho] - 十一 [じゅういち]
(n) 11; eleven [K] [D] [Jisho] - 十億 [じゅうおく]
1,000,000,000; billion (American); milliard (British) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 不十分 [ふじゅうぶん]
(adj-na,n) insufficient; inadequate; imperfect; shortage [K] [D] [Jisho] - 十九 [じゅうきゅう]
19; nineteen [K] [D] [Jisho] - 十五 [じゅうご]
15; fifteen [K] [D] [Jisho] - 十三 [じゅうさん]
13; thirteen [K] [D] [Jisho] - 七十 [しちじゅう]
seventy [K] [D] [Jisho] - 十四 [じゅうよん]
14; fourteen [K] [D] [Jisho] - 八十 [はちじゅう]
(n) eighty [K] [D] [Jisho] - 十字 [じゅうじ]
(adj-na,n) cross; crossed; cruciform [K] [D] [Jisho] - 十字架 [じゅうじか]
(n) cross; the Cross (of Christ) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 十七 [じゅうしち]
17; seventeen [K] [D] [Jisho]
Acknowledgments
The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.
The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.
Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.
The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.
If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.