Glossary of Basic Japanese Terms

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Glossary of Basic Japanese

Note: click on the word in Romaji to hear the pronunciation.

Numbers
Romaji	Hiragana	Kanji	English
ichi	いち	一	one
ni	に	二	two
san	さん	三	three
shi	し	四	four
go	ご	五	five
roku	ろく	六	six
shichi	しち	七	seven
hachi	はち	八	eight
kyuu	きゅう	九	nine
jyuu	じゅう	十	ten

Note: four can sometimes be read as yon よん and seven can be read as nana なな. When reading levels, the fourth level is yondan and the seventh level is nanadan.

Let's count - Click here to count to ten (365KB)

Counting (things)
Romaji	Hiragana	Kanji	English
hitotsu	ひとつ	一つ	one
futatsu	ふたつ	二つ	two
mittsu	みっつ	三つ	three
yottsu	よっつ	四つ	four
itsutsu	いつつ	五つ	five
muttsu	むっつ	六つ	six
nanatsu	ななつ	七つ	seven
yattsu	やっつ	八つ	eight
kokonotsu	ここのつ	九つ	nine
tou	とう	十	ten

Let's count things - Click here to count ten things (383KB)

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