Words
Words with 十
Kanji 十, meaning ten, appears in 441 Japanese vocabulary entries.
十王
じゅうおう
ten rulers of the afterlife (who judge the dead and determine their placement in their next life)
十牛
じゅうぎゅう
Ten Bulls (ten stages of the herding of an ox, used as an analogy for training the mind on the path to enlightenment)
十牛図
じゅうぎゅうず
Ten Ox-Herding Pictures (ten images and accompanying short poems in Zen iconography that use the herding of an ox as an analogy for training the mind on the path to enlightenment)
十五年戦争
じゅうごねんせんそう
Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)
十二縁起説
じゅうにえんぎせつ
Buddhist theory of the twelve-fold chain of causation, interdependent origination and co-dependent arising (San: pratītya-samutpāda)
十二直
じゅうにちょく
twelve words used to mark the old calendar as indicators of lucky and unlucky activities