Kanji: 十

    • Meaning : ten
    • ON reading : ジュウ,ジッ,ジュッ
    • KUN reading : とお,と
    • Nanori : い,か,ぎ,さ,し,そ,そう,ち,とう,ね,ま,る,わ
    • Stroke count : 2
    • Frequency of use ranking : 8
    • Jouyou grade level : 1
    • JLPT : 4
    • Radical :

Words containing that kanji:


  • - ひとのうわさもしちじゅうごにち - Wonder lasts but nine days
  • - じんせいわずかごじゅうねん - Life is short
  • い - ろくじゅうのてならい - Never too late to learn
  • より - あすのひゃくよりきょうのごじゅう - A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
  • - すうじゅうねん - few decades/many decades/several decades
  • - ひとのうわさもななじゅうごにち - gossip lasts just one season (lit: 75 days)
  • - じっしんぶんるいたいけい - decimal classification system
  • - じっしんひょうきほう - decimal notation
  • - こうどうじゅうにきゅう - twelve signs of the zodiac
  • - まるじゅう - cross in a circle
  • 10 | - じゅうしんしょうすう - decimal fraction
  • - じゅうにょぜ - ten thusnesses (in Tendai)
  • - ぶつじゅうごう - ten epithets of Buddha
  • - しこくはちじゅうはっかしょ - 88 temples of Shikoku (holy spots related to Kobo Daishi)
  • - はちじゅうはっかしょ - 88 temples (of, or modeled after those of, Shikoku)
  • - じゅうごう - ten epithets (of Buddha)
  • いてる - いちをきいてじゅうをしる - to understand everything from only one part/to be perceptive
  • - じゅうだいでし - the ten great disciples (of Buddha)
  • - じゅうごにち - the 15h day of the month
  • ナイフ - じゅっとくナイフ - multipurpose knife/swiss army knife
  • - ごじゅうおん - the Japanese syllabary
  • - ごじゅっぽひゃっぽ | ごじっぽひゃっぽ - six of one and a half dozen of the other/scant difference
  • - ごじゅうおんじゅん - the syllabary order
  • - いそじ - age fifty/one's fifties
  • - じゅうろくらかん - the sixteen arhats
  • - ごじゅうねんさい - jubilee/semicentennial
  • - めいじにじゅうしちはちねんせんえき - Meiji 27-28 Campaign (alternate name for the First Sino-Japanese war; 1894-1895)
  • - ごじゅうさんつぎ - the 53 Toukaidou stages
  • - ろくじゅうろくぶ - Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
  • - じゅうはちらかん - the eighteen arhats
  • - じゅうにじんしょう - the twelve divine generals (of Bhaisajyaguru)
  • - じゅうにけい - twelve meridians (in acupuncture, etc.)
  • - ごだいじっこく - Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (in Chinese history)
  • - じゅうへんけい - decagon
  • - じゅうぶんのいちぜい - tithe
  • - しんとうじゅうさんぱ - the thirteen sects of Sect Shinto (Fuso-kyo, Taisha-kyo, Jikko-kyo, Konko-kyo, Kurozumi-kyo, Misogi-kyo, Ontake-kyo, Shinri-kyo, Shinshu-kyo, Shinto Shusei-ha, Shinto Taikyo, Taisei-kyo, Tenri-kyo)
  • - さんじゅうにち - 30th
  • - さんじゅうろっけい - the 36 (ancient Chinese military) strategies (of which the last resort was said to be beating a retreat)
  • - さんじゅうさんしょ - any of a number of sets of thirty-three holy places enshrining Avalokitesvara (esp. those comprising a popular pilgrimage in the Kinki region)
  • - さんじゅうはちどせん - the Thirty-eighth Parallel
  • - さんじっこ - thirty houses
  • - さんじゅうねんせんそう - the Thirty Years' War
  • - さんじゅうにぶおんぷ - 32nd note
  • - みそじ - age thirty/one's thirties
  • - じゅうにりつ - ancient Chinese chromatic scale (primarily used in Japan for gagaku, etc.)
  • - しじゅうから | しじゅうがら | シジュウカラ | シジュウガラ - great tit (Parus major)
  • - しちじゅうにんやくせいしょ | ななじゅうにんやくせいしょ - Septuagint
  • | 18 - じゅうはちきん - 18 certificate/R-18/restricted to those 18 years or older
  • - ななそじ - age seventy/one's seventies
  • - にじゅうやほしてんとう | ニジュウヤホシテントウ - 28-spotted ladybird (Epilachna vigintioctopunctata)
  • | - じゅういちけんきん - tithes
  • - じゅうえんだま - 10 yen coin
  • 10 | - じゅうがつ - October
  • - じゅうさん - 13/thirteen
  • - じゅうじか - cross/the Cross (of Christ)
  • - じゅうじがい - crossroads/street crossing
  • - じゅうじせん - crosshairs
  • - じっしゅきょうぎ - decathlon
  • - じっしんせい - decimal system
  • - じゅうにんりき - the strength of ten
  • - じゅうに - 12/twelve
  • - じゅうにしちょう - duodenum
  • り - じゅうにおり - duodecimo (folding)
  • - とおかのきく - coming too late
  • - じゅうはち - 18/eighteen
  • - じゅうぶんのいち - tenth/tithe
  • - じゅうまん - 100,000/hundred thousand
  • - じゅうろく - 16/sixteen
  • - しじゅうからがん | シジュウカラガン - Aleutian Canada goose (Branta canadensis leucopareia)
  • - ごこじゅうろっこく - Sixteen Kingdoms (collection of sovereign states in and around China from 304 to 439 CE)/Sixteen Kingdoms period
  • - じゅういちめんかんのん - eleven-faced Goddess of Mercy
  • - じゅうおく - 1,000,000,000/billion (American)/(obs) milliard (British)
  • - じゅうがつかくめい - October Revolution
  • - じゅうさんや - 13th day (of the moon)/the night of the 13th day of 9th lunar month
  • - じゅうじかじょう - cruciform
  • - じゅうじぐん - Crusades/Crusaders
  • - じゅうじほうか - cross fire
  • - とえ - tenfold
  • - じっしんぶんるいほう - decimal classification/Dewey (decimal) classification
  • - じゅうすう - ten-odd
  • - じゅうにきゅう - constellations of the zodiac
  • - じゅうにしちょうちゅう - hookworm
  • - じゅうにひとえ - twelve-layered ceremonial kimono (worn by a court lady) | ajuga (Ajuga nipponensis)/bugle
  • - じゅうねんいちじつ | じゅうねんいちにち - without intermission for ten (long) years/with constancy of purpose for ten (long) years/in the same old rut for years on end
  • - じゅうぶもんぶんるいほう - Dewey Decimal System
  • - じゅうもんじ - a cross/cruciform
  • - じゅうまんおくど - eternity/paradise
  • - じゅうろくおんぷ - 16th note
  • - じゅういち | ジュウイチ - 11/eleven | Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax)
  • - じゅういちめんかんぜおん - Ekadasamukha (eleven-faced Avalokitesvara)
  • - じっかん - the 10 calendar signs
  • - じゅうご - 15/fifteen
  • 11 | - じゅういちがつ - November
  • - じゅうう - refreshing rain once in ten days
  • - じゅうきゅう - 19/nineteen
  • - じゅうごや - night of the full moon/the night of the 15th day of the 8th lunar month
  • に - じゅうじに - crosswise
  • - じゅうじか - crossfire
  • - じゅうじけい - cross/cruciform
  • - じって | じゅって - short metal truncheon
  • - じっしん - decimal system/deciam
  • - じゅうにんといろ - Several men, several minds/everyone has his own ideas and tastes/everyone has his own interests and ideas/different strokes for different folks
  • - じっちゅうはっく | じゅっちゅうはっく - 8 or 9 cases out of ten/in all probability
  • 使 - じゅうにしと - Twelve Apostles
  • - じゅうにじ - twelve o'clock/noon/midnight
  • 10 | - とおか - the tenth day of the month | ten days
  • - じゅうばい - ten times/tenfold
  • | - じゅうぶん - plenty/enough/sufficient/satisfactory/adequate | division into ten | perfectly/thoroughly/fully/in full
  • - じっぽん | じゅっぽん - ten (long cylindrical things)
  • - じゅうりょう - second highest sumo division/wrestlers of the second highest sumo division
  • - てつじゅうじくんしょう - Iron Cross
  • - じゅうじ - cross/crossed/cruciform
  • - じゅうじかぞう - crucifix
  • - じゅうじぐんきし - the Crusaders
  • - じゅうじろ - crossroads
  • - とえはたえ - multitude
  • - じっしんほう - decimal system
  • - じゅうぜん - perfection/consummation/absolute safety
  • 12 | - じゅうにがつ - December
  • - じゅうにし - the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac
  • - じゅうにぶん - more than enough
  • - じゅうのう - fire shovel/fire pan
  • - じっぷん | じゅっぷん - 10 minutes
  • に - じゅうもんじに - crosswise
  • - じゅうもく - all eyes
  • - いざよい - sixteen-day-old moon
  • - じゅうごねんせんそう - Fifteen Years' War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)
  • - にじゅうにしゃ - The Twenty-Two Shrines (the 22 most important Shinto shrines, as designated during the Heian period)
  • - はちじゅうまん | やそよろず - 800000 | many
  • | - はたとせ - twenty years
  • キー - じゅうじキー - cross-key (directional keypad on video game controller)
  • - じゅうにいんねん - the twelve nidanas (continuum of twelve phases that lead to suffering)
  • - しちじゅうにこう - the 72 'climates' of the year based on the 24 solar seasons further divided into three
  • - じっぽう - the ten directions (north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, northwest, up & down) | all directions/everywhere
  • - じゅうぜん - the ten good acts | the emperor
  • - せきじゅうじこくさいいいんかい - International Committee of the Red Cross
  • - せきじゅうじ - Red Cross
  • - ごじゅうから | ゴジュウカラ - Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea)
  • - せきじゅうじしゃ - the Red Cross
  • - ちちぶさんじゅうさんしょ - 34 (originally 33) sacred places in and around Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture
  • - じゅうぜんのきみ - the emperor
  • - じっぽうせかい - worlds of the ten directions
  • 西 - さいごくさんじゅうさんしょ | さいこくさんじゅうさんしょ - 33 temples in the Kinki area containing a statue of Avalokitesvara
  • - じゅうあく - the ten abominations (the ten most grievous offenses under traditional Chinese law) | the ten evil deeds
  • - そうじゅうせつ - the Double Tenth/October 10th Chinese national holiday
  • - じゅうじ - dasabhumi (forty-first to fiftieth stages in the development of a bodhisattva)
  • - ばんどうさんじゅうさんしょ - 33 sacred places in the Kanto Region (which was previously known as Bandou)
  • - ふたそじ - age twenty/one's twenties
  • - ここのそじ - age ninety/one's nineties
  • - じっかい - ten spiritual realms
  • 宿 - にじゅうはっしゅく - twenty-eight mansions of Chinese astronomy (constellations dividing the ecliptic into 28 positions)
  • - みなみじゅうじ - (brightest four stars of the) Southern Cross
  • - じゅうじざ - Southern Cross
  • - じゅうにちょく - twelve words used to mark the old calendar as indicators of lucky and unlucky activites
  • セシウム | セシウム137 - セシウムひゃくさんじゅうしち - Cesium 137 (Cs-137) (Caesium)
  • - にじゅうあし - kanji "twenty legs" radical (radical 55)
  • みなみじゅうじ | - みなみじゅうじざ - Southern Cross
  • - おにもじゅうはちばんちゃもでばな - just as even coarse tea tastes good when fresh, even homely girls look beautiful at the peak of their youth
  • - みなみじゅうじせい - (brightest four stars of the) Southern Cross
  • - にじゅうよじかんせい - around-the-clock system
  • - にじゅうだい - one's twenties
  • - にじゅうしせっき - 24 divisions of the solar year/24 terms used to denote the changing of the seasons
  • | 廿 - はつかねずみ | ハツカネズミ - house mouse (Mus musculus)
  • - にひゃくとおか - 210th day (from the first day of spring according to the lunar calendar)/the storm day
  • - はたえ - many-fold
  • - はつかだいこん - the small garden radish
  • | 廿 - にじゅう | はた - twenty
  • 20 | - にじっせいき | にじゅっせいき - twentieth century
  • - にひゃくはつか - 220th day/end of the storm period
  • - ごとおび - days of the month ending in 5 or 0 (when payments are often due)
  • - やそじ - age eighty/one's eighties
  • | - ふじゅうぶん - insufficient/inadequate/imperfect/shortage
  • る - じゅうじをきる - to make the sign of the cross/to bless oneself/to cross oneself
  • げるにしかず | げるにかず - さんじゅうろっけいにげるにしかず - the smartest thing in a tight situation is to beat a retreat
  • - いこんじゅうねん - grudge of ten years' standing/harbouring a grudge for many years
  • - いちもくじゅうぎょう - outstanding reading ability (lit: one glance, ten lines)
  • - じっしいっしょう - narrow escape from the jaws of death | there being barely a chance of escaping death
  • - いちばくじっかん - bursts of exertion will fail to bear fruit if interrupted by long periods of idleness | strenuous efforts, unless sustained, are to no avail (Mencius)
  • - めいじじゅうよねんのせいへん - the failed Meiji-14 coup of 1881
  • - にじゅういっかじょうようきゅう - The Twenty-One Demands
  • - じゅうしちじょうけんぽう - The Seventeen-Article Constitution
  • - ろくじゅうよしゅう - 66-odd provinces of old Japan
  • - じっさつ | じっせつ - ten important Rinzai temples, second in significance to the Kyoto Gozan
  • - むそじ - age sixty/one's sixties
  • - ろくじゅうしぶおんぷ - 64th note
  • | - みそさざい | しょうりょう | さざき | ささぎ | さざい | みそさんざい | ミソサザイ - winter wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
  • - しじゅうはって - the 48 basic sumo techniques/every trick in the book
  • - しちじゅう | ななじゅう | ななそ - seventy
  • - じゅう | と | とお - 10/ten
  • - じゅうしち | じゅうなな - 17/seventeen
  • - ばらじゅうじだん - Rosicrucian/Fellowship of the Rosy Cross
  • - じゅうし | じゅうよん - 14/fourteen
  • | - じゅうはちばん | おはこ - No. 18/eighteenth | repertoire of 18 kabuki plays | one's favourite stunt (favorite)/one's specialty
  • - じっかい | じゅっかい - ten times
  • - じってつ | じゅってつ - Basho's Ten Disciples/Confucius' Ten Disciples
  • - きゅうじゅう | くじゅう - ninety
  • - じっし | じゅっし - the ten fingers
  • | 10 | - じゅうだい - the teens (10-19)/teenage/the tenth generation
  • | - じっかい - the 10 precepts | Ten Commandments/Decalogue/Decalog
  • | み - じゅうにんなみ - being average (capacity, looks) (as good as anyone)/mediocrity
  • | | 20 | 廿 - はたち - 20 years old | twenty
  • - はちじゅうだい - the eighties (age, years, etc.)
  • | - そろばん - abacus
  • 20 | 廿 | - はつか - twentieth (day of the month) | twenty days
  • | | - みそか | つごもり | みそ - last day of month
  • - なんじゅう - several tens
  • きに - じゅっぷんおきにうんてん - operating on a ten-minute schedule
  • - にじゅうしき - the 24 seasonal divisions of a year in the old lunar calendar
  • - にじゅうよっか - twenty-fourth day of the month
  • - しじゅうふわく - At forty, one has no doubts. (Confucius)
  • - しちじゅうこき - Men seldom live to be seventy (Du Fu (c.712-c.770))/Few people live to be seventy
  • - つくもがみ - an old woman's gray hair | old woman with white hair
  • から | からまで - いちからじゅうまで - from A to Z/without exception/in every particular
  • - じゅうよっか - fourteenth day of the month
  • - ごじゅうおんず - the Japanese syllabary table
  • - じゅうはちきん - 18-carat gold
  • - はちじゅう | やそ - eighty
  • - よんじゅう | しじゅう | よそ - forty
  • - とうかいどうごじゅうさんつぎ - fifty-three stages on the Tokaido (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)
  • - かんろくじゅうぶん - having great (impressive, commanding) presence/having an air of importance/having enough gravity for (a position)
  • - ごじゅうちめい - At age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven. (Confucius)
  • - ごふうじゅうう - seasonable rains and winds/halcyon weather/halcyon times of peace
  • - じゅうまいめ - second highest sumo division
  • - さいじゅうりょう - sumo wrestler re-promoted to juryo division
  • - しんじゅうりょう - sumo wrestler newly promoted to juryo division
  • - まくうちじゅうねん - 10 year career in highest sumo division is enough for anyone
  • - ごじゅう | いそ | い - fifty
  • - ごじゅうかた - stiff shoulders (owing to age) | frozen shoulder
  • - じゅうりょうひっとう - two highest ranked wrestlers in juryo division (sumo)
  • - じゅうりょうかく - referee officiating the second highest sumo division
  • - すうじゅう - dozens/scores of/decades
  • - ひゃくはちじゅうど - 180 degrees/complete change
  • - かぎじゅうじ - swastika
  • やる | | やる | - やるきじゅうぶん - sufficiently motivated (to do something)
  • - ひつようじゅうぶんじょうけん - necessary and sufficient condition
  • - じゅうねんひとむかし - expression suggesting that the pace of change makes ten years back seem like ancient history
  • - じゅうぶんじょうけん - a sufficient condition
  • げ | - じっぱひとからげ | じゅっぱひとからげ - lumping together all sorts of things/making sweeping generalizations/dealing with various things under one head
  • - じゅうにしちょうかいよう - duodenal ulcer
  • | み - ドクダミ | どくだみ | じゅうやく - chameleon plant (Houttuynia cordata)
  • - しじゅうくにち - forty-ninth day after a person's death
  • - かぶきじゅうはちばん - repertoire of 18 kabuki plays
  • - しじゅうかた - shoulder pain (at about age forty)
  • | り | り - つづらおり - winding/meandering/sinuous/zigzag
  • - よそじ - age forty/one's forties
  • - じゅうねん - ten years/decade
  • - ろくじゅう | むそ - sixty
  • - じゅうしまつ | ジュウシマツ - Bengalese finch/society finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica)
  • - はちじゅうはちや - eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring
  • - せきじゅうじじょうやく - Red Cross Convention
  • - りょくじゅうじ - the green cross symbolizing faith, liberty and truth
  • - ふくじゅうじ - double-crosspiece cross (symbol for tuberculosis prevention)
  • - ろくじゅうしけ - the 64 hexagrams (of the Book of Changes)
  • | - さんじゅう | みそ - thirty
  • め - かたじゅうじじめ - cross choke
  • - さるじゅういちがつ - last November
  • - こめじゅうりゅう - ten grains of rice
  • - せきじゅうじふ - school attached to the Japan Red Cross Society
  • - だんじゅうろうじょう - Danjuro (kabuki actor)
  • - しじゅうしちし - The 47 Ronin