じゅう
Meanings
Numeric
1. fifty; 50
Kanji used
five
ten
Pitch accent
じゅ
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Composed of
five; 5
ten; 10; ten years of age
Used in vocabulary (8 in total)
the Japanese syllabary
① 痛みのために肩関節の運動が妨げられる症状。四十歳代以降に多くみられる。
fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)
at age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven
jubilee; semicentennial
the Japanese syllabary table
life is short; (lit.) life is just fifty years
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; (lit.) fifty today is better than a hundred tomorrow
Examples (7 in total)
There were fifty passengers on board the bus.
The train is traveling at the rate of 50 miles an hour.
Our ancestors arrived in this country 150 years ago.