ごじゅう
Meanings
Numeric
1. fifty; 50
I am fifty-four years old.
Pitch accent
ご
じゅ
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Composed of
five; 5
ten; 10; (arch.) book containing a collection of poems
Used in vocabulary (8 in total)
the Japanese syllabary
stiff shoulders (usu. owing to age); frozen shoulder
fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)
Examples (21 in total)
That was a whole fifty years ago.
Here you are, fifty yen in change.
The height of the cliff exceeds fifty meters.
It's roughly fifty people, I suppose.
Of those, fifty-nine are alive.
The number is estimated at five hundred thousand!
An egg is about fifty grams.
Fifty percent, no, it might not even be thirty.
There were fifty passengers on board the bus.
The launch price was three yen fifty sen apiece.
The train is traveling at the rate of 50 miles an hour.
A hundred and fifty diplomats came to that conference.
Then, nearly fifty girls had gathered in front of the school building.
My father finally learned to drive when he was fifty.
He is a man who is somewhat slovenly, even though he is already in his fifties.
In terms of your sense of time, was it about a hundred and fifty years ago?
After that I kept on fighting and beat fifty opponents in a row.
Our ancestors arrived in this country 150 years ago.
My school library has a collection of 2.5 million books.
There was a phone call from a 50-year old man who had been told he had a year left to live due to heart disease.
He was fairly tall, and at a rough guess he weighed a little over fifty kilos.