Japanese Words - Japanese Numbers (2024)

Let's learn Japanese numbers with Audio.
Japanese numerical systems are quite different from its English.
Here, we introduced the basic numbers.

There are two numerical systems in the Japanese language.
The ichi, ni, san system and the hitotsu, futatsu, mittsu system.
The ichi-system is used with number counters.
The hitotsu-system is used independently without number counters (ex. 1-en, 1-mai, 1-dai).
The hitotsu-system goes as far as 10 and cannot be use for people, time and money.

1 to 10

ichi-system
1.	ichi
2.	ni
3.	san
4.	shi, yon
5.	go
6.	roku
7.	shichi, nana
8.	hachi
9.	kyuu, ku
10.	juu

hitotsu-system
1.	hitotsu
2.	futatsu
3.	mittsu
4.	yottsu
5.	itsutsu
6.	muttsu
7.	nanatsu
8.	yattsu
9.	kokonotsu
10.	too

10 to 10,000 (ichi-system only)

10.	juu
20.	ni-juu
30.	san-juu
40.	yon-juu
50.	go-juu
60.	roku-juu
70.	nana-juu
80.	hachi-juu
90.	kyuu-juu
100.	hyaku

100.	hyaku
200.	ni-hyaku
300.	sanbyaku
400.	yon-hyaku
500.	go-hyaku
600.	roppyaku
700.	nana-hyaku
800.	happyaku
900.	kyuu-hyaku
1000.	sen

1000.	sen
2000.	ni-sen
3000.	san-zen
4000.	yon-sen
5000.	go-sen
6000.	roku-sen
7000.	nana-sen
8000.	hassen
9000.	kyuu-sen
10000.	ichi-man

Large Numbers

1		ichi
10		juu
100		hyaku
1,000		sen
	-----
10,000		ichi-man
100,000		juu-man
1,000,000		hyaku-man
10,000,000		issen-man
	-----
100,000,000		ichi-oku
1,000,000,000		juu-oku
10,000,000,000		hyaku-oku
100,000,000,000		issen-oku
	-----
1,000,000,000,000		icchoo
10,000,000,000,000		jucchoo
100,000,000,000,000		hyaku-choo
1,000,000,000,000,000		sen-choo