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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
- —八十八夜eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring
- —十両筆頭two highest ranked wrestlers in juryo division
- —幕内十年10 year career in the highest division is enough for anyone
- —五風十雨seasonable rains and winds; halcyon weather; halcyon times of peace
- —貫禄十分having great (impressive, commanding) presence; having an air of importance; having enough gravity for (a position)
- —五十知命at age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven
- —四十不惑at age forty, one has no doubts
- —七十古希men seldom live to be seventy; few people live to be seventy
- —二十四気the 24 seasonal divisions of a year in the old lunar calendar
- —遺恨十年grudge of ten years' standing; harbouring a grudge for many years
- —一目十行outstanding reading ability; one glance, ten lines
- —二十八宿28 mansions of Chinese astronomy (constellations dividing the ecliptic into 28 positions)
- —十善の君the emperor
- —七十二候the 72 microseasons of the year based on the 24 solar seasons further divided into 3
- —二十二社the Twenty-Two Shrines; the 22 most important Shinto shrines, as designated during the Heian period
- —十二因縁the twelve nidanas (continuum of twelve phases that lead to suffering)
- —十字キーD-pad (directional keypad on a video game controller, remote control, etc.)
- —六十六部Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
- —十八羅漢the eighteen arhats
- —十六羅漢the sixteen arhats