Character · Numbers
十
じゅうにん jūninといろ toiroくじゅう kujūじゅう jū
ten
Composition
Origin
A plain vertical stroke in the old script, the conventional sign for the number ten.
In the thoughts
- 十人jūninten people
- 十色toiroten colors
- 九十kujūninety
- 五十gojūfifty
- 三十六計sanjūrokkeithirty-six stratagems
- 七十五日shichijūgo-nichiseventy-five days
- 十四五jūshigofourteen-fifteen
- 十五万jūgoman150,000
Proverbs carrying this character
- 049 十人十色 Ten people, ten colors.
- 122 百里を行く者は九十を半ばとす He who travels a hundred leagues counts ninety as halfway.
- 150 一を聞いて十を知る Hear one, understand ten.
- 176 明日の百より今日の五十 Better fifty today than a hundred tomorrow.
- 194 三十六計逃げるに如かず Of the thirty-six stratagems, retreat is the finest.
- 206 人の噂も七十五日 A rumor lives but seventy-five days.
- 231 鶏頭の十四五本もありぬべし Cockscombs — there must be fourteen, maybe fifteen.
- 232 春や昔十五万石の城下かな Spring — long ago, a proud castle town of a hundred fifty thousand koku.
- 272 六十の手習い Learning calligraphy at sixty.
- 276 六日の菖蒲、十日の菊 Iris on the sixth, chrysanthemum on the tenth: one day too late.