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)
① 一年の10倍。
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
① 漢字の「十」の字の形。② 蒸し餅または饅頭の異名。
the teens (10-19); teenage; the tenth generation
① 一年の中の十二番目の月。
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
① 少しも欠けた所が無く完全であること。また、そのさま。② 概念・認識がその表す対象と完全に一致していること。
① 月の14番目の日。② 1日の14倍。
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
① 仏教の開祖、釈迦牟尼を呼ぶ 10の称号のこと。10個そろえることに意味があるので数に変動はないが、内容には若干の異同がある。そのうち今の日本でよく使われるのは「世尊」。また、十号にはないが、「釈尊」もよく使われる(釈尊は「釈迦牟尼世尊」の略)。仏十号、如来十号ともいう。
1,000,000,000; billion
second highest division; wrestlers of the second highest division
① 陰暦十五日の夜で、満月の夜。② 特に、旧暦八月十五日の夜で、団子や芒の穂、果物などを供えて月をまつる。中秋。秋の季語。
several men, several minds; everyone has his own ideas and tastes; everyone has his own interests and ideas; different strokes for different folks
① 容貌、技量などが普通であること。
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
① 容貌、技量などが普通であること。
the strength of ten
① 十悪を犯さないこと。
decennial; recurring every ten years
cross in a circle
① 蕎麦粉だけで作った蕎麦。蕎麦には小麦粉を混ぜることが多いため、蕎麦粉だけの蕎麦を特に区別していう。
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)
① 十二を底として、十二の累乗で桁を進める記数法。十二種類の数字として、0から9までの十個のアラビア数字と、AとBの二つのラテン文字を通常用いる。十をA、十一をB、十二を10、十二分の一を0.1と表す。
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
① ひとめで十行の文を一度に読めること。
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.