じゅうろく – Vocabulary details

じゅうろく

Meanings

Numeric

1. sixteen; 16

こんなにうれしいのは、十じゅう六ろく年ねん間かん生いきてきてはじめてだった。It was the first time in my sixteen years of life that I had been this happy.

Alt. forms

Pitch accent

じゅ

うろく

Used in: 22

Composed of

じゅう

ten; 10; (arch.) book containing a collection of poems

ろく

six; 6

Used in vocabulary (10 in total)

にじゅうろく

26; twenty six; 2am

じゅうろくにち

16th day of the month; 16 days

じゅうろくぶおんぷ

sixteenth note; semiquaver

ろくじゅうろくぶ

Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)

じゅうろくらかん

the sixteen arhats

じゅうろくしんほう

hexadecimal; hexadecimal notation; hex

さんじゅうろくじぼ

36 Initials (system for transcribing initial consonants of Middle Chinese)

すじゅうろく

scoring combination consisting of sixteen 1-point cards

じゅうろくうち

16-strand braided (rope)

じゅうろくちゃ

Jūrokucha (blended tea drink)

Examples (6 in total)

じゅうろく歳さいですよ。

I'm sixteen years old.

今いまの俺おれはじゅうろく歳さいで学がく生せいという身み分ぶんである。

I am currently sixteen years old and a student.

こんなにうれしいのは、じゅうろく年ねん間かん生いきてきてはじめてだった。

It was the first time in my sixteen years of life that I had been this happy.