じゅうろく
Meanings
Numeric
1. 16; sixteen
Kanji used
ten
six
Pitch accent
じゅ
うろく
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Composed of
ten; 10; ten years of age
six; 6
Used in vocabulary (8 in total)
sixteenth day of the month; sixteen days
Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
① 十六を底として、十六の累乗で桁を進める記数法。十六種類の数字として、0から9までの十個のアラビア数字と、AからFまでの六個のラテン文字を通常用いる。十をA、十五をF、十六を10、十六分の一を0.1と表す。
36 Initials (system for transcribing initial consonants of Middle Chinese)
scoring combination consisting of sixteen 1-point cards
Examples (4 in total)
I'm sixteen years old.
Today is 23rd November 2016.
Tom and Mary live on a farm and have 16 children.