十 (じゅうぶん · ふじゅうぶん · じゅう)

Etymology

A single vertical line, representing one set of ten. Analagous to the archaic characters 廿 (twenty) and 卅 (thirty). Possibly originally a picture of a needle, now written as 針.

Example sentences

1. もう十一時よ。 — It's already 11.
2. 十時ごろですか。 — Is it about ten o'clock?
3. 今まだ十時です。 — It's still ten o'clock.
4. 一日は二十四時間ある。 — A day has twenty-four hours.
5. 二かける七は十四です。 — Two times seven is fourteen.

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