十
ten
2 strokes. Taught in grade 1. Newspaper frequency rank 8.
Readings
- ジュウ (on reading): 十分 (じゅうぶん) enough; 数十 (すうじゅう) dozens
- ジッ (on reading): 十進法 (じっしんほう) decimal system; 十干 (じっかん) ten celestial stems (two types each of wood, fire, earth, metal, water)
- そ (kun reading): 三十路 (みそじ) age thirty; 四十路 (よそじ) age forty
- ジュッ (on reading): 十指 (じゅっし) the ten fingers; 十分置きに運転 (じゅっぷんおきにうんてん) operating on a ten-minute schedule
- とお (kun reading): 十日の菊 (とおかのきく) something that comes too late and is useless; 二百十日 (にひゃくとおか) 210th day (from the first day of spring according to the lunar calendar)
- と (kun reading): 十重 (とえ) tenfold; 十重二十重 (とえはたえ) multitude
- Read as a whole word: 二十歳 (はたち) 20 years old; 十六夜 (いざよい) sixteen-day-old moon; 二十日鼠 (はつかねずみ) house mouse (Mus musculus)
Components
- 十 radical ten
Kanji containing 十
- 協 co-
- 支 branch
- 千 thousand
- 半 half
- 計 plot
- 直 straightaway
- 真 true
- 南 south
- 率 ratio
- 早 early
- 針 needle
- 古 old
- 壊 demolition
- 卒 graduate
- 博 Dr.
- 喪 miss
- 索 cord
- 干 dry
- 盾 shield
- 懐 feelings
- 阜 hill
- 辛 spicy
- 辻 crossing
- 傘 umbrella
- 汁 soup
- 挿 insert
- 卑 lowly
- 隼 falcon
- 皐 swamp
- 叶 grant
- 廾 twenty
- 什 utensil
- 卆 soldier
- 卉 grass
- 夲 advance quickly
- 卍 swastika
- 戎 warrior
- 孛 comet
- 瓧 ten grams
- 竍 decalitre
- 籵 dekametre
- 訊 request
- 貭 matter
- 惠 blessing
- 煢 all alone
- 蝨 lice
- 鴇 wild goose
- 聽 careful enquiry
Words using 十
- 十分 (じゅうぶん) enough
- 数十 (すうじゅう) dozens
- 十字軍 (じゅうじぐん) Crusades
- 十字 (じゅうじ) cross
- 何十 (なんじゅう) (several) tens
- 二十歳 (はたち) 20 years old
- 十六夜 (いざよい) sixteen-day-old moon
- 二十日鼠 (はつかねずみ) house mouse (Mus musculus)
- 九十九折 (つづらおり) winding
- 二十重 (はたえ) many-fold
- 十進法 (じっしんほう) decimal system
- 十干 (じっかん) ten celestial stems (two types each of wood, fire, earth, metal, water)
- 十進 (じっしん) decimal
- 十刹 (じっせつ) ten important Rinzai temples, second in significance to the Kyoto Gozan
- 十傑 (じっけつ) ten best people (in a particular field)
- 三十路 (みそじ) age thirty
- 四十路 (よそじ) age forty
- 三十日 (みそか) last day of the month
- 五十路 (いそじ) age fifty
- 七十路 (ななそじ) age seventy
- 十指 (じゅっし) the ten fingers
- 十分置きに運転 (じゅっぷんおきにうんてん) operating on a ten-minute schedule
- 十徳ナイフ (じゅっとくナイフ) multipurpose knife
- 十歳 (じゅっさい) ten-year-old
- 十国鋼索線 (じゅっこくこうさくせん) Jukkokutōge Cable Car
- 十日の菊 (とおかのきく) something that comes too late and is useless
- 二百十日 (にひゃくとおか) 210th day (from the first day of spring according to the lunar calendar)
- 五十日 (ごとおび) days of the month ending in 5 or 0 (when payments are often due)
- 十日夜 (とおかんや) Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest)
- 十日戎 (とおかえびす) Tōka Ebisu
- 十重 (とえ) tenfold
- 十重二十重 (とえはたえ) multitude
- 二十歳 (はたとせ) twenty years
- 十月十日 (とつきとおか) babies born on October 10, supposedly conceived on New Year's Day
- 今日の一針、明日の十針 (きょうのひとはり、あすのとはり) a stitch in time saves nine
- 五十集 (いさば) small Edo period short-distance transport vessel (of marine products, fuel, etc.)
- 九十九髪 (つくもがみ) an old woman's gray hair
- 十 (シー) ten
- 十三ヤオ九 (シーサンヤオチュー) thirteen orphans
- 五十瀬 (いせ) many torrents
354 words in all.