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Japanese numbers in kanji

Japanese writes numbers two ways: with Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3) and with kanji (一, 二, 三). Kanji numbers appear on menus, price tags, calendars and in names, and they build up logically: 十 is ten, 二十 is twenty and 二十三 is twenty-three. 万 (ten thousand) is a unit of its own, so 100,000 is written 十万.

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Kanji readings, meanings and frequency from KANJIDIC2, © Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. JLPT levels from Jonathan Waller's JLPT resources (CC BY).