Word Meaning 十年

じゅうねん juunen

十年 is read as じゅうねん (juunen) and means ten years.

Meaning

English

  1. ten years
  2. decade

Reading

Kana

じゅうねん

Romaji

juunen

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 8 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N5 Jōyō Grade 1 Kanken 10級 Rank 93083 Priority O

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

十年選手

じゅうねんせんしゅ

veteran (at a job)

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)

十年一昔

じゅうねんひとむかし

the pace of change makes ten years back seem like ancient history

幕内十年

まくうちじゅうねん

10 year career in the highest division is enough for anyone

数十年

すうじゅうねん

few decades

失われた十年

うしなわれたじゅうねん

lost decade (esp. of Japan, 1992-2002)

五十年祭

ごじゅうねんさい

jubilee

明治二十七八年戦役

めいじにじゅうしちはちねんせんえき

Meiji 27-28 Campaign (alternate name for the First Sino-Japanese war; 1894-1895)

明治十四年の政変

めいじじゅうよねんのせいへん

ousting of vice-minister Ōkuma Shigenobu and his supporters from the Meiji government (1881)

book containing a collection of poems

じゅう

book containing a collection of poems

十四

じゅうし

14

Example Sentences

1

わたしはにじゅうねんここにすんでいる。

I have lived here for twenty years.