Word Meaning 十夜

じゅうや juuya

十夜 is read as じゅうや (juuya) and means ten-night memorial service (6th to 15th days of the 10th month in the lunar calendar).

Meaning

English

ten-night memorial service (6th to 15th days of the 10th month in the lunar calendar)

Reading

Kana

じゅうや

Romaji

juuya

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 10 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N4 Jōyō Grade 2 Kanken 9級 Rank 99468 Priority P

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

十二夜

じゅうにや

Twelfth Night

十日夜

とおかんや

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)

十三夜

じゅうさんや

13th day (of the moon)

十五夜

じゅうごや

night of the full moon

十六夜

いざよい

sixteen-day-old moon

二十三夜

にじゅうさんや

23rd night of a lunar month (esp. 8th month)

八十八夜

はちじゅうはちや

eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring

十分

じゅうぶん

division into ten

十代

じゅうだい

the tenth generation

十字

じゅうじ

cross

十二分

じゅうにぶん

more than enough

十文字

じゅうもんじ