Q: What is 100 in Japanese?

100 in Japanese is 百 which is spoken as hyaku .

Q: What is 10 in Japanese?

10 in Japanese is 十 which is spoken as juu .

Q: Are there any Japanese numbers with irregular pronunciation?

Not many but there are some to note which include: 300 in Japanese would not read as san-hyaku, but san-byaku . 600 in Japanese would not read as roku-hyaku but ropp-yaku . 800 in Japanese would not read hachi-hyaku or shichi-hyaku but happ-yaku .

Q: What are the two ways of pronouncing the number 4 in Japanese?

The number four in Japanese can be spoken as shi or yon . Generally if one takes a preference it'd be the latter, yon .

Q: What are the two ways of pronouncing the number 7 in Japanese?

7 can be spoken as shichi or nana in Japanese. nana takes preference generally.

Question 1

What is 1, 2, 3 in Japanese?

Accepted Answer

The written Kanji for 1, 2 and 3 in Japanese couldn't be simpler! The pronunciation is in brackets

1 /一【ichi】

2/二【ni】

3/三【san】

Interestingly the numbers in Japanese mirror that of Chinese Mandarin.

Question 2

Why do some Japanese numbers have two pronunciations?

Accepted Answer

Those second pronunciations were created because of “avoided words” that sound like something unfortunate.

For example originally, 4 was pronounced as【shi】.

However, there is another word in Japanese that is 死【shi】.

This word means death, very similar to Chinese. 7【shichi】also sounds similar, and 9【ku】sounds like 苦【ku】that means suffering.

Therefore, people preferred to use an alternate pronunciation.

Usually people do not hesitate to pronounce those avoided numbers, but still, most hotels and apartments in Japan do not have room numbers ending with 4 and 9 because of that traditional reason.

Question 3

What is 100 in Japanese?

Accepted Answer

100 in Japanese is 百 which is spoken as hyaku.

Question 4

What is 10 in Japanese?

Accepted Answer

10 in Japanese is 十 which is spoken as juu.

Question 5

Are there any Japanese numbers with irregular pronunciation?

Accepted Answer

Not many but there are some to note which include:

300 in Japanese would not read as san-hyaku, but san-byaku.

600 in Japanese would not read as roku-hyaku but ropp-yaku.

800 in Japanese would not read hachi-hyaku or shichi-hyaku but happ-yaku.

Question 6

What are the two ways of pronouncing the number 4 in Japanese?

Accepted Answer

The number four in Japanese can be spoken as shi or yon.

Generally if one takes a preference it'd be the latter, yon.

Question 7

What are the two ways of pronouncing the number 7 in Japanese?

Accepted Answer

7 can be spoken as shichi or nana in Japanese.

nana takes preference generally.

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