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Japanese Numerals

There are two different counting systems in Japan:

a. the Sino-Japanese comes from Chinese origin

b. the Native Japanese originates from Japan. 

However, you need to use counters with Sino-Japanese, because Native-Japanese numbers only
exist 1-10. The rest are all Sino-Japanese.

Native Japanese Numbers Sino-Japanese Numbers

1 ひとつ (hitotsu) 一つ (ichi) 一

2 ふたつ (futatsu) 二つ に (ni) 二

3 みっつ (mittsu) 三つ さん (san) 三

4 よっつ (yottsu) 四つ し、よん (shi, yon) 四

5 いつつ (itsutsu) 五つ ご (go) 五

6 むっつ (muttsu) 六つ ろく (roku) 六

7 ななつ (nanatsu) 七つ しち,なな (shichi, nana) 七

8 やっつ (yattsu) 八つ はち (hachi) 八

9 ここのつ (kokonotsu) 九つ く,きゅう (ku, kyuu) 九

10 とう (tō) 十 じゅう (juu) 十

Note:

Native-Japanese numbers are easy to recognize because they all end in “-tsu”, except for 10 but it
doesn’t mean that those are the only ones that we can use.

While Sino-Japanese numbers is actually more common even between 1-10. Creating numbers from
10 upwards is very easy for Sino Japanese numbers.

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How to count from 10 to 100

Number Romaji Number Romaji

10 juu 100 hyaku

20 ni juu 200 ni hyaku

30 san juu 300 san byaku

40 yon juu 400 yon hyaku

50 go juu 500 go hyaku

60 roku juu 600 roppyaku

70 nana juu 700 nana hyaku

80 hachi juu 800 happyaku

90 kyuu juu 900 kyuu hyaku

100 hyaku 1,000 sen/issen

Example: 325
Example: 20 - ni juu (にじゅう)
300 – san byaku (さんびゃく)
5 – go (ご)
20 – ni juu (にじゅう)
25 – ni juu go (にじゅうご)
5 - go (ご)
Example: 78 (70 + 8)
325 -さんびゃくにじゅうご

Example: 925 (900 + 20 + 5)

How to count from 1,000 to 10,000

How to count from 100 to 1,000

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 Number Romaji Number Romaji

1,000 sen 10,000 ichi man

2,000 ni sen 20,000 ni man

3,000 san zen 30,000 san man

4,000 yon sen 40,000 yon man

5,000 go sen 50,000 go man

6,000 roku sen 60,000 roku man

7,000 nana sen 70,000 nana man

8,000 ha ssen 80,000 hachi man

9,000 kyuu sen 90,000 kyuu man

10,000 ichi man 10,0000 juu man

Example: 5325 Example: 75325

5000 - go sen (ごせん) 70000 - nana man (ななまん)

300 – san byaku (さんびゃく) 5000 - go sen (ごせん)

20 – ni juu (にじゅう) 300 – san byaku (さんびゃく)

5 - go (ご) 20 – ni juu (にじゅう)

5325 -ごせんさんびゃくにじゅ 5 - go (ご)

うご
75325 -ななまんごせんさんびゃくに
Example: 8925 (8000 + 900 + 20 + 5) じゅうご
Example: 51925 (50000 + 1000 + 900 + 20 +
5)

How to count from 10,000 to 100,000

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How to count from 100,000 to 1,000,000

Number Romaji

100,000 juu man

200,000 ni juu man

300,000 san juu man

400,000 yon juu man

500,000 go juu man

600,000 roku juu man

700,000 nana juu man

800,000 hachi juu man

900,000 kyuu juu man

1,000,000 hyaku man

Example: 875325

800000 - hachi juu man (はちじゅうまん)

70000 - nana man (ななまん)

5000 - go sen (ごせん)

300 – san byaku (さんびゃく)

20 – ni juu (にじゅう)

5 - go (ご)

649028 (600000 + 40000 + 9000 + 0 + 20 + 8)

DELETE THE “man” in the 800,000 (man should not repeat)