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十 kanji
ten
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 2
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
ジュウジッジュッ
Kun readings
とおとそ
Words with 十
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —十夜粥rice gruel served in temples for ten-night memorial services
- —十二天twelve devas (esp. of the Shingon sect)
- —十八界eighteen components of perception (six sense objects, six sense faculties, six sense consciousnesses)
- —十面体decahedron
- —十二夜Twelfth Night; Epiphany Eve
- —十三月January; 13th month
- —素十六scoring combination consisting of sixteen 1-point cards
- —十六進hexadecimal; hexadecimal notation; hex
- —お十時mid-morning snack (eaten around 10 AM); morning tea; elevenses
- —ギザ十reeded-edge 10 yen coin (minted 1951-1958)
- —十字石staurolite
- —十牛図Ten Ox-Herding Pictures (ten images and accompanying short poems in Zen iconography that use the herding of an ox as an analogy for training the mind on the path to enlightenment)
- —十二夜Twelfth Night (comedy by William Shakespeare); Twelfth Night, or What You Will
- —十六茶Jūrokucha (blended tea drink)
- —五十音順standard gojūon syllabary order (beginning with aiueo)
- —五十年祭jubilee; semicentennial
- —三十三所thirty-three temples sacred to Kannon (Avalokitesvara)
- —三十六計the 36 (ancient Chinese military) strategies (of which the last resort was said to be beating a retreat)
- —十月革命October Revolution
- —十字架状cruciform