じゅう
Meanings
Numeric
1. ten; 10
拾 is used in legal documents
Noun
2. ten years of age
when read as "とお"
Kanji used
ten
Pitch accent
じゅ
Top 1600
Used in vocabulary (91 in total)
enough; sufficient; sufficiently; fully; division into ten
15; fifteen
twelve; 12; queen (playing card)
ten years; decade
dozens; scores of; decades
thirteen; 13; king (playing card)
ten-odd; a dozen or so
17; seventeen
17; seventeen
eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
14; fourteen
ten o'clock
cross; crossed; cruciform
the teens (10-19); teenage; the tenth generation
December; twelfth month of the lunar calendar
November; eleventh month of the lunar calendar
100,000; hundred thousand
twelve o'clock; noon; midnight
more than enough; more than ample; exhaustive
ten times; tenfold
perfection; thoroughness; consummation
fourteenth day of the month; fourteen days
eleventh day of the month; eleven days
nineteenth day of the month; nineteen days; (arch.) fool; (arch.) simpleton
from A to Z; without exception; in every particular
180 degrees; complete change
ten epithets (of Buddha)
1,000,000,000; billion
second highest division; wrestlers of the second highest division
night of the full moon; the night of the 15th day of the 8th lunar month
several men, several minds; everyone has his own ideas and tastes; everyone has his own interests and ideas; different strokes for different folks
being average (capacity, looks) (as good as anyone); mediocrity
ten rulers of the afterlife (who judge the dead and determine their placement in their next life)
ten-night memorial service (6th to 15th days of the 10th month in the lunar calendar)
eleven-faced Avalokiteshvara; eleven-faced Kannon
fire shovel; fire pan
12th anniversary of one's death
16th anniversary of one's death
being average (capacity, looks) (as good as anyone); mediocrity
the strength of ten
the ten good acts; the emperor
decennial; recurring every ten years
cross in a circle
soba made with only buckwheat flour
the ten great disciples (of Buddha)
first system to rank officials into 12 levels (603 CE)
the ten abominations (the ten most grievous offenses under traditional Chinese law); the ten evil deeds
second highest division
ousting of vice-minister Ōkuma Shigenobu and his supporters from the Meiji government (1881)
Sixteen Kingdoms (collection of sovereign states in and around China; 304-439 CE); Sixteen Kingdoms period
Ten Bulls (ten stages of the herding of an ox, used as an analogy for training the mind on the path to enlightenment)
decennial; recurring every ten years
January; (lit.) 13th month
dasabhumi (forty-first to fiftieth stages in the development of a bodhisattva)
duodecimal system; base twelve system
Ekadasamukha (eleven-faced Avalokitesvara)
ten thusnesses (in Tendai)
from A to Z; without exception; in every particular
decennial; recurring every ten years
twelve words used to mark the old calendar as indicators of lucky and unlucky activities
eleven-faced Avalokiteshvara; eleven-faced Kannon
outstanding reading ability; (lit.) one glance, ten lines
Christmas blues; holiday stress (during December)
seventeen main pavilions of the imperial palace
the Double Tenth; October 10th Chinese national holiday
chameleon plant (Houttuynia cordata)
Examples (22 in total)
The committee is comprised of ten members.
She has ten children.
I have ten children.