Japanese

にじゅう
Meaning: twenty
Part of Speech: Noun, Number

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Handwriting

二
十

Example sentences

The progress of science and technology in the 20th century is tremendous.
1日は二十四時間だ。
A day is twenty-four hours.
二十余年の歳月が流れた。
Twenty-odd years have passed.
私は今年で二十才になります。
I will be twenty years old this year.
参加者は精々二十人くらいだろう。
There will be at most around 20 participants.
この車は一リットルのガソリンで二十キロ走る。
This car runs twenty kilometers on one liter of gasoline.
二十年後に開けるために、校庭にタイムカプセルを埋めた。
We buried a time capsule in the schoolyard to be opened in twenty years.
駅から家まで歩きで二十分かかります。
It takes twenty minutes on foot from the station to the house.
この部屋の面積は二十平方メートルです。
The area of this room is 20 square meters.
その天才画家は二十代で夭折した
That genius painter died young in his twenties.

Usage Notes

Refers to the number 20.

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