十

ten

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

ジッジュウジュッ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

そととお

Nanori (名乗り)

いかぎさしそそうちとうねまるわ

Stroke Order

2 / 2

Information

Grade:1

Strokes:2

JLPT:N5

Frequency:8

Vocabulary

ジッ

Word	Reading	Meaning
二十世紀	ニジッセイキ	twentieth century
二十歳	ニジッサイ	20 years old; twenty
十種競技	ジッシュキョウギ	decathlon
十指	ジッシ	the ten fingers
三十戸	サンジッコ	thirty houses

ジュウ

Word	Reading	Meaning
五十音	ゴジュウオン	the Japanese syllabary
三十八度線	サンジュウハチドセン	38th parallel (that demarcates North Korea and South Korea)
十一	ジュウイチ	eleven; 11; jack
十一月	ジュウイチガツ	November; eleventh month of the lunar calendar
十億	ジュウオク	1,000,000,000; billion

ジュッ

Word	Reading	Meaning
二十世紀	ニジュッセイキ	twentieth century
二十歳	ニジュッサイ	20 years old; twenty
十指	ジュッシ	the ten fingers
十進	ジュッシン	decimal; denary
十進法	ジュッシンホウ	decimal system

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
五十三次	ごじゅうさんつぎ	fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)
十日	とおか	10th day of the month; ten days
二十	はた	twenty; 20
二十四時間制	にじゅうよじかんせい	around-the-clock system
二百十日	にひゃくとおか	210th day (from the first day of spring according to the lunar calendar); the storm day

Visually Similar Kanji

These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes

dry, parch, ebb, recede, interfere, intercede

below, down, descend, give, low, inferior

negative, non-, bad, ugly, clumsy

street, ward, town, counter for guns, tools, leaves or cakes of something, even number, 4th calendar sign

noon, sign of the horse, 11AM-1PM, seventh sign of Chinese zodiac

measuring box, 1.8 liter

well, well crib, town, community