じゅう
Meanings
Numeric
1. fifty; 50
Kanji used
five
ten
Pitch accent
じゅ
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Composed of
five; 5
ten; 10; ten years of age
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 (3 in total)
A 40- or 50-year-old is a snot-nosed brat.
Our ancestors arrived in this country 150 years ago.
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.