Numbers in Japanese 0 – 99 : Easy Guide

Knowing basic Japanese numbers will certainly be useful when you are travelling in Japan: telling the time, communicating how many rice balls you want to buy in a shop etc…

Here is the super easy way to learn Japanese numbers 0 – 10.

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zelo

… that was easy.

Worried that you still might forget? Go ahead and write them down on a piece of paper!

Worried that you might lose that piece of paper? No problem, wear them on a T-shirt!

Once you learnt these basic Japanese numbers, saying numbers up to 99 will be just a walk in the park.

20 ni-jyu, 30 san-jyu, 40 yon-jyu, 50 go-jyu, 60 loku-jyu, 70 nana-jyu, 80 hachi-jyu, 90 kyu-jyu

Then…

21 ni-jyu-ichi, 22 ni-jyu-ni, 23 ni-jyu-san…

you get the pattern.

Please note, the official Romanised Japanese does not use L but R, but I am using L instead of R in this list as the Japanese /r/ is closer to the English L most of the time. We, Japanese are notorious for having trouble with Ls and Rs, but that’s a discussion for another time…