Words
Words with 二
Kanji 二, meaning two, appears in 839 Japanese vocabulary entries.
ダブル立直
ダブルリーチ
declaring that one is one tile away from winning on one's first discard and before any tiles have been called or kongs declared
一眼二足三胆四力
いちがんにそくさんたんしりき
firstly vision, secondly footwork, thirdly courage, fourthly technique (the most important aspects of kendo)
一国二制度
いっこくにせいど
one country, two systems (Chinese policy allowing for areas such as Hong Kong to maintain their own economic and administrative systems)
一都一道二府四十三県
いっといちどうにふよんじゅうさんけん
one metropolis (Tokyo), one "circuit" (Hokkaido), two urban prefectures (Osaka and Kyoto) and 43 prefectures proper
一富士二鷹三茄子
いちふじにたかさんなすび
best is Fuji, second is a hawk, third is an eggplant (of auspicious things to see in a dream, esp. one's first dream of the year)
下二段活用
しもにだんかつよう
conjugation (inflection, declension) of nidan verbs (resulting in a stem of either "e" or "u" for every conjugation)
海底二万里
かいていにまんり
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A Tour of the Underwater World (1870 novel by Jules Verne)
三二年テーゼ
さんじゅうにねんテーゼ
1932 Theses (Comintern policy documents urging overthrow of Japan's imperial and metayage systems)
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