十 (Ten) Kanji Discussion

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十 - Ten

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No one wants to buy one stick for ten dollars. You sit at your booth at the local flea market all day, but everyone just walks by :frowning:

Grade: 1
Strokes: 2
JLPT Level: N5
Readings: ジュウ, ジッ, とお

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Once you learn kanji for Japanese numbers 1 through 10, you can describe 1-99 in kanji!
11 is “十一” (Think it as 10+1); 12 is ‘十二,’ 13 is ‘十三’…
20 is “二十” (Think it as 2x10); 21 is ‘二十一’ (2x10+1); 22 is ‘二十二’ … and so on.
After 100, you need another kanji 百, which will appear next:)