Words
Words with 十
Kanji 十, meaning ten, appears in 440 Japanese vocabulary entries.
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
十日夜
とおかや
Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest)