MARTIAL ARTS VOCABULARY

COUNTING IN JAPANESE

If you have studied a Japanese Martial Art then it is highly likely that your instructor counted in Japanese. Here are the numbers, their names and how they are written and counted.

Numbers From One to Ten and How to Count With Them! The counting terms given are general; most Japanese nouns, however, require special counting words.
English Name	Number (Romaji)	Counting (Romaji)
One	Ichi	Hitotsu
Two	Ni	Futatsu
Three	San	Mittsu
Four	Shi (Yon) or Chi	Yotsu
Five	Go	Itsutsu
Six	Roku	Mutsu
Seven	Shichi (Nana) or Sichi	Nanatsu
Eight	Hachi	Yattsu
Nine	Kyu (Ku)	Kokonotsu
Ten	Juu or ju	To
Eleven	Juichi
Twelve	Juni
Thirteen	Jusan
Fourteen	Juchi
Fifteen	Jugo
Sixteen	Juroku
Seventeen	Jusichi
Eighteen	Juhachi
Nineteen	Juku
Twenty	Niju
Twenty-one	Ni ichi
Twenty-two	Ni ni
Twenty-three	Ni san
Twenty-four	Ni chi
Twenty-five	Ni go
Twenty-six	Ni
Twenty-seven	Ni sichi
Twenty-eight	Ni hachi
Twenty-nine	Ni ku
Thirty	San Ju
Forty	Yon-Jyu
Fifty	Go-Jyu
One Hundred	Hyaku
One Thousand	Sen
Zero	Zero

Here's How the Numbers Progress as Powers of 10
Arabic Number	10x	Kanji Equivalent	What it Expresses
1	100		One
10	101		Ten
100	102		Hundred
1,000	103		Thousand
10,000	104		Ten Thousand
100,000	105		Ten x Ten Thousand
1,000,000	106		Hundred x Ten Thousand
10,000,000	107		Thousand x Ten Thousand
100,000,000	108		Hundred Million
1,000,000,000	109		Ten x Hundred Million
10,000,000,000	1010		Hundred x Hundred Million
100,000,000,000	1011		Thousand x Hundred Million

Some examples:

• Twelve (ten followed by two)

• Twenty (two tens)

• Forty-two (four tens followed by two) The Answer

• 1997 (Thousand, nine hundreds, nine tens, followed by seven) This year

• 249,632,692 (Two hundred millions, four thousand nine hundred sixty three ten thousands, two thousands, six hundreds, nine tens, followed by two.) The population of the U.S. according to the 1990 census.

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