Questions tagged [numbers]
数字. The various spoken and written forms of words and characters covering digits, numbers, numerals, including derived forms such as ordinals.
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How to read: the “~” (tilde) in “3~4 行”
How should I read the "~" mark that stands for range, as described in the title?
I saw this in the following sentence:
3~4行ごとに1行あけると読みやすい。
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Double/ordinal number expression [duplicate]
I would like to know the pronunciation for these following expressions:
i) (1, 2日), (6, 7日), (7, 8日), (8, 9日), (8, 10日), (18~20日)
ii) 第2日, 第3日, 第4日, 第5日, 第6日, 第7日, 第8日, 第9日, 第10日, 第20日
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Native or Sino Japanese numbers?
When listing steps (step 1, 2, 3, etc) do you use the Native Japanese counter or the Sino Japanese counter?
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Can I pronounce 十三日 as じゅうみっか?
I wonder if both prounciations of 十三日 are accepted?
じゅうさんにち
じゅうみっか
The reasons I am asking are these:
Windows IME seems to accept it
十四日 is pronouncecd as じゅうよっか, matching the pronunciation of 四日, ...
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Can I say na, nano, nanu as “seven” instead of nana?
On my kanji dictionary, below 七, there are several kunyomi among the common ones (nana, nanatsu), they are: na, nano, nanu; it's written that they are nouns themselves and it's the same for the other ...
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How to pronounce “2” in はやぶさ2 (spacecraft / mission)
I'm a beginner. I was watching news about JAXA's はやぶさ2 mission and I think it is pronounced はやぶさ つ. Can someone please confirm that "2" is pronounced "つ" and explain why.
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Different ways of enumeration
Japanese seems to have multiple ways of enumerating sequences. The basic one is ordinal numbers:
Arabic (Indian) numbers like in English: 1,2,3
classic Chinese numbers: 一、二、三 etc.
special legal ...
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Leaving away the 目 suffix for ordinal numbers
I've seen 「1ページ」 refer to "page 1" of e.g. a book. Wouldn't this technically mean "one page" and 「１ページ目」 be correct for "page 1"?
Is leaving away the 目 when referring to ...
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Non-universal counters and reading 7 and 9
Q1. Why are these counters like 人(にん), 日(にち) and 歳(さい) not universal?
人(にん) is impossible to be joined with 1(いち) or 2(に)?
日(にち) is impossible to be joined with 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 20 or ...
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Is there a reason why numbers in Japanese are delimited into blocks of four?
As I understand, Japanese numbers are divided into blocks of four, so while we would think of the number 89123889 as 89,123,889, in Japan they would think of it as 8912,3889 (八千九百十二万三千八百八十九). So ...
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Do we use odd day pronunciations outside of calendar ranges?
After reading @jkerian's comment in this post, I started thinking about this. Here's the comment in full:
On a side note, all days ending in '4' are also irregular, and use ~よっか. So the 14th is じゅう・...
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Are kanji typically used in times and dates?
Are kanji typically for numbers used in times and dates?
For example, would "七" and "十五" in the first sentence, and "九" and "三" in the second sentence be normal Japanese? (I'm aware that the ...
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Maths sentences: 足す and 掛ける
I noticed a lack of case marking particles in mathematical sentences:
１足す２は３である。
３掛ける４は１２である。
足す and 掛ける are verbs, does subject and object analysis apply to this? Do they take on the ...
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Regarding 7日, 9日, and counting 40, 70, 90
If you convert "ななにち" or "しちにち", you can get a letter "㏦(IDEOGRAPHIC TELEGRAPH SYMBOL FOR DAY SEVEN). Doing "きゅうにち" or "くにち", you can get a letter "㏨(IDEOGRAPHIC TELEGRAPH SYMBOL FOR DAY NINE). When I ...
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The day of the month
I've learned that the 1st to 10th day of the month is always read specially. However, when I converted these by using my computer typing "いちにち、ににち、さんにち、よんにち、ごにち、ろくにち、ななにち、はちにち、きゅうにち、じゅうにち、じゅうよんにち、...
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How to say 一〇年 in a sentence [duplicate]
I see this structure a lot:
まるで一〇年以上.......
What does the 一〇 mean and how do I pronounce it? Is it いちまる?
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What is the meaning of 七五三 in the sentence, 七五三のしゃしんです。
I was looking at the following sentence under a picture that I unfortunately cannot provide:
七五三のしゃしんです。
I believe the sentence reads "It's a picture of 753"... which doesn't make sense.
I know ...
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How would you refer to an apartment number?
I am currently working through みんなの日本語 (and still very new), in 第二課の会話 one character says "...408のサントスです。”, but in the audio the voice actor says what sounds like ”よんまるはちのサントスです".
I would say 408 as "...
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What is the correct expression of 10/20, 20/30, 30/40 etc?
On a news report, I heard the phrase 四五{しご}十{じゅう}メートル and it got me thinking about how to express other number approximations. Are the following correct?
10 or 20 meters じゅうにじゅうメートル
20 or 30 ...
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What is independent form of numeral 10?
An old Dover grammar-book of Japanese shows it to be to (it has no kana but I assume it's と), but Wikipedia shows to̅ (とお). Which one is correct?
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How many things? AとBがふたつ
「その上{うえ}には熱帯魚{ねったいぎょ}の水槽{すいそう}と何{なに}かのトロフィーがふたつのっている。」
This is a quote from "The wind-up bird and Tuesday's Women." How many fish tanks are there? How many trophies?
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数詞 + も suitable location
How should I determine which place I need to locate 「数詞{すうし} + も」? From my text book example:
1: 毎年{まいとし}何百枚{なんびゃくまい}も年賀状{ねんがじょう}を出{だ}します
数詞も is now located in front of the noun 年賀状.
2: 卵{たまご}...
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７色 vs 七色 for rainbow (7 colors vs 7 prismatic colors)
虹は7色だ。
Rainbow has 7 colors.
There are 7 colors in rainbow.
Question:
how to pronounce 7色 to make meaning [7 colors]?
Problem:
七色 is not [7 colors].
It is a special scientific term, meaning [7-...
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What does 1500万0000円 mean on a price display?
I'm a bit confused by the price display in a sushi restaurant video, see https://youtu.be/V1g0yIBTDjQ?t=608
Do I misread the number or is this a joke (the video has an unusual cut there)?
It shows ...
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Questions about counters
My first question is, are counters always required when counting things? Can't I just slap a number in front of the noun? For example,「いちりんご」for 1 apple?
Secondly, in Lesson 5 of the Japanese For ...
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How do you say “some”, “many”, “a few”, and “few” when referring to people?
So, of course, I know words like 多い, たくさん, 少ない, 少し, and 何+[counter]+か to express "many", "few", "a few", and "some" in most contexts. However, I have absolutely no idea what are the Japanese ...
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How to read 24-hour clock format
There are a lot of topics on forums in what case Japanese people use 24-hour clock format. But I have never seen how it should be pronounced. It's not hard to say something like 8:05. This is common ...
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Are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4… also considered Romaji?
Are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4....... also considered Romaji? If they are not written using kanji?
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Can 11,000 be written １.１万?
I have seen 11,000 written as １万１０００, but not as １.１万 (the way one may write '3.5 millions'). Is this possible?
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Different ways of saying “single”?
I am trying to translate basic combat to Japanese, but find myself struggling as to which form of "x of this" to use.
I am currently trying to figure out how to say "single," as in "single punch," ...
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Is there a methodology for forming the intuition to count in myriads?
In my native language (not Japanese), the Sino-Xenic word for "ten thousand" (萬) is only used in historical contexts. In modern times, the Western way of counting in thousands is much preferred, and ...
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Are there native Japanese numbers greater than 10? What use are they?
Most people who've taken a Japanese 101 class know the 10 native Japanese numbers (一つ、二つ・・・十). It's always seemed odd that a system would stop at 10 when so many things in life need larger numbers. ...
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Why 112 is pronounced as ippyakujuuni instead of ichihyakujuuni?
I ran across Jim Breen's page (http://nihongo.monash.edu/jnumbers.html) regarding numbers, it links to an image (provided below) which I found confusing.
It reads 112 as ippyakujuuni, and 1386 as ...
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Mixed Fractions/Mixed Numerals in Japanese
So I know how to read normal fractions (like 1/2) in Japanese but I was wondering how to read mixed fractions (such as 3 1/2). Would one just say 三と二分の一?
Thanks.
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Meaning of 以上 and 以下 according to water depth level
Reading a text like:
海の深さが200m以上{いじょう}
The first thing that came into my mind was:
Above a level of 200m depth
But then I realized that my understanding can be wrong and it may mean something ...
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What is the significance of number 8 (八) in Japanese? [duplicate]
I've noticed a couple of words with the character 八 that have (seemingly) nothing to do with the number 8.
八百屋【やおや】 - greengrocer
八つ【やつ】当たり【あたり】 - taking out anger on someone
八丁【はっちょう】 - ...
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What does 中３の２５％ exactly mean?
I am not sure about the first part of
「中３の２５％、短文も理解困難」
Do you read 中 as ちゅう here?
25% of 3 would be 0.75% if I am not mistaken. Therefore does it mean something like 「around 0.75% of the ...
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Why some tutorials teach writing Japanese numbers with Hiragana when they are actually written with Katakana (as on-yomi) in dictionaries?
I've just began learning some Kanji by looking-up how the numbers are written (and read) and suddenly bumped into confusion while watching some tutorials. I can hear the tutors pronouncing a number in ...
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How are numbers pronounced in (movie) titles? (i.e. ジョーズ３)
For example, ジョーズ３ (i.e. "Jaws Three") is in a list of movies. Would the "3" be pronounced "さん"? Typically, counter words follow after a number in Japanese. And sometimes the number's reading ...
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＃回に＃度: probability or sequence?
In a game manual, there is a description of a rare item that sometimes appears instead of a regular one. The rule determining when this rare item appears is this:
16回に１度、Ｘのかわりに出現。
In an earlier ...
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Meaning of “１部２万”
たかが感想文とはいえ、ほどほどにリアルな文体と内容が好評で、今では俺の量産する感想文は現在１部２万で取引されている。
speaker talking about his trivial job of writing feedback for literature aimed at elementary schoolers, how many is １部２万 exactly?
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What is the correct pronunciation of 唯一
For the word (or composition of two words): 唯一,
sometimes also written as: 唯一つ,
Two possible pronunciations come to my mind:
ゆいいつ [yuiitsu] -onyomi
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ただ ひとつ [tada hitotsu] -kunyomi
Which one is ...
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Are typhoons more commonly referred to by number or name?
Do Japanese ever assign a name to a typhoon, or are they always numbered? In most countries the name is more commonly used.
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What is the equivalent in arabic numbers of ３．２千
Sorry if this question seems to be stupid, but I'm not a japanese speaker, yet I have to "translate" Japanese numbers to Arabic numbers.
I have a problem with the chain ３．２千 :
according to https://...
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Question about the characters on Japanese Yen banknotes
Apologies in advance if this is not the best place for this question. Apologies also that I couldn't "tag" this question very well as I had to fight with the tagging system for 5 minutes before I ...
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Pitch accent for numbers?
I haven't been able to find a good source online, so I'm asking you guys. What is the pitch-accent rule for numbers? Is 十五 (じゅうご) a 0 or a 1 or a 3 or what? Is there a general pattern?
I realize that ...
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Listing things off: Using Hitotsu repeatedly
I've seen shows where they list things (etc rules, principles) with hitotsu for every point. I would expect hitotsu, futatsu... etc, to be the norm but it doesn't seem so. It didn't seem to be a ...
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Reading and translation for “1日目”, “2日目”, “3日目”, etc
I have a list referring to days of classes that reads this way:
1日目 - Ichinichime - Day 1
2日目 - Futsukame - Day 2
3日目 - Mikkame - Day 3
4日目 - Yokkame - Day 4
5日目 - Itsukame - Day 5
And so on (until ...
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How do I say 2100 and 2210 in terms of the 100 and the 10?
Is 2100 nisen hyaku or nisen yihyaku ?
Similarly for 2210, nisen nihyaku juu or nisen nihyaku yijuu ?
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The yomikata of 十三
This has been obsessing me for quite a while. While 十三 is normally pronounced ジュウサン, it is often pronounced ジュウゾウ in people's names and also pronounced ジュウソウ in names of places. I am wondering how ...
