Word Meaning 二十

にじゅう nijuu

二十 is read as にじゅう (nijuu) and means twenty.

Meaning

English

  1. twenty
  2. 20

Reading

Kana

にじゅう

Romaji

nijuu

Writing Variants

  • 20 にじゅう nijuu
  • 二〇 にじゅう nijuu
  • 二十 はた hata
  • 弐拾 にじゅう nijuu
  • 廿 にじゅう nijuu
  • にじゅう nijuu

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 4 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N5 Jōyō Grade 1 Kanken 10級 Rank 936 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

二十日

はつか

20 days

二百二十日

にひゃくはつか

220th day

二百十日

にひゃくとおか

210th day (from the first day of spring according to the lunar calendar)

二十歳

はたち

20 years old

二十世紀

にじっせいき

twentieth century

二十四時間制

にじゅうよじかんせい

around-the-clock system

二十四節気

にじゅうしせっき

24 divisions of the solar year

二十一箇条要求

にじゅういっかじょうようきゅう

The Twenty-One Demands

二十日大根

はつかだいこん

radish (Raphanus sativus var. sativus)

二十五史

にじゅうごし

Twenty-Five Histories

二十四史

にじゅうしし

Twenty-Four Histories

二十面体

にじゅうめんたい

icosahedron

Example Sentences

10

Five times five is twenty-five.

Laurie is twenty years old.

He got married at 22.

A day has twenty-four hours.

He earns twenty dollars a day.

I think that she is about twenty years old.

Let's order twenty kebabs!

He got married at 22.

He's been teaching for 20 years.

As many as twenty students were absent.