十 Kanji: Meaning, Readings and Stroke Order

十: ten; tenth. JLPT N5; 2 strokes.

Readings

On readings

ジュウ、ジッ

Kun readings

とお、と

Romaji

juu, ji', too, to

Study notes

十 is the number ten; it appears in compound numbers (二十, twenty) and in expressions such as 十分 (じゅうぶん, sufficient).

On readings: ジュウ in 十 (じゅう, ten), 十月 (じゅうがつ, October), 十人十色 (じゅうにんといろ, "many heads, many opinions"). Before k, s, t and p it becomes じゅっ or じっ: 十回 (じゅっかい or じっかい, ten times), 十分 (じゅっぷん or じっぷん, ten minutes).

Kun readings: とお, "ten", in traditional counting of objects and in 十日 (とおか, the 10th day of the month; ten days). と appears in 十色 of 十人十色.

Special readings: 二十日 (はつか, the 20th day of the month) and 二十歳 (はたち, twenty years old) are read as whole words.

Remember: 十分 is read じゅうぶん when it means "sufficient, enough" and じゅっぷん when it means "ten minutes".

Example words

• 十時 (じゅうじ) — ten o'clock
• 十年 (じゅうねん) — ten years
• 十回 (じっかい) — ten times
• 十分 (じゅっぷん) — ten minutes
• 十日 (とおか) — ten days; the tenth day of the month
• 十重二十重 (とえはたえ) — multitude

Example sentences

十時に寝ます。

juuji ni nemasu.

I go to bed at ten.

Stroke order

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