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Numbers

We have grouped a small set of 21 Japanese kotoba that indicate numbers from 1 to 10 and more

Note: You must know Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji to learn them.

This is an easy milestone to cross. Once you know numbers, many other words are easy to learn. For example, months name. In Japanese language, the name of the months are simply represented by Month-1 to Month-12 Or to be litterally correct 1-Month to 12-Month. Check it out at Name of the Months page.

List of JLPT N5 words that indicates Numbers

Kanji	Kana	Romaji	Meaning
一	いち	Ichi	One
二	に	Ni	Two
三	さん	San	Three
四	し or よん	Shi or Yon	Four
五	ご	Go	Five
六	ろく	Roku	Six
七	なな or しち	Nana or Shichi	Seven
八	はち	Hachi	Eight
九	きゅう	Kyuu	Nine
十	じゅう	Juu or Jyuu	Ten
十一	じゅういち	Juuichi	Eleven
十二	じゅうに	Juuni	Twelve
二十	にじゅう	Ni Jyuu	Twenty
二十一	にじゅういち	Ni Jyuu Ichi	Twenty One
二十二	にじゅうに	Ni Jyuu Ni	Twenty Two
三十	さんじゅう	San Jyuu	Thirty
三十一	さんじゅういち	San Jyuu Ichi	Thirty One
九十九	きゅうじゅうきゅう	Kyuujyuukyuu	Ninetynine
百	ひゃく	Hyaku	Hundred
千	せん	Sen	Thousand
万	まん	Man	Ten Thousand

Eleven onwards, join juu + number
For example
Eleven is Ten + One
Ten is "Juu" and One is "Ichi", Hence the foll

Twenty is 2 x 10, which is ni x jyu = Ni + Jyu
Similar to Eleven onwards
Twenty one is Twenty + One = Nijyuu + ichi

Similarly for Thirty, Forty etc…
Thirty is 3 x 10, which is san x jyu = san + Jyu
Thirty one is Thirty + One = sanjyuu + ichi

Note:
For 4, we should use "Yon" for 14, 24, etc…
That is Jyu Yon is for Fourteen and Ni Jyuu Yon is for Twenty Four etc…
Similarly for 7, we should use "Nana" for 17, 27, etc…
That is Jyu Nana is for Seventeen and Ni Jyuu Nana is for Twenty Seven etc…

Now you have completed learning them. Congrats. This is a "small success" and a step ahead to completing all JLPT Level N5 Vocabulary.

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