Counters › 軒
軒 (ken) — counting houses and shops
Buildings you can enter as a business or a home: houses, restaurants, shops.
How to count with 軒, 1 to 10
| # | Reading | Romaji | Written |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | いっけん | ikken | 1軒 |
| 2 | にけん | niken | 2軒 |
| 3 | さんげん | sangen | 3軒 |
| 4 | よんけん | yonken | 4軒 |
| 5 | ごけん | goken | 5軒 |
| 6 | ろっけん | rokken | 6軒 |
| 7 | ななけん | nanaken | 7軒 |
| 8 | はっけん | hakken | 8軒 |
| 9 | きゅうけん | kyuuken | 9軒 |
| 10 | じゅっけん | jukken | 10軒 |
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Watch out
三軒 voices to さんげん. That irregularity shows up in 三軒茶屋 (Sangenjaya), the Tokyo neighbourhood.
In a sentence
| Japanese | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| この道に店が二軒ある | このみちにみせがにけんある konomichinimiseganikenaru | There are two shops on this street. |
| 家が三軒並んでいる | いえがさんげんならんでいる iegasangennarandeiru | Three houses stand in a row. |
The kanji
Other counters
- つ (tsu) — the all-purpose counter
- 人 (nin) — people
- 本 (hon) — long, thin things
- 枚 (mai) — flat, thin things
- 個 (ko) — small, roundish objects
- 匹 (hiki) — small animals
- 頭 (tou) — large animals
- 冊 (satsu) — books and bound volumes
- 台 (dai) — machines and vehicles
- 杯 (hai) — cupfuls and glassfuls
- 階 (kai) — floors of a building
- 回 (kai) — times / occurrences
- 歳 (sai) — age in years
- 足 (soku) — pairs of footwear
- 着 (chaku) — suits and outfits
- 通 (tsuu) — letters and documents
- 名 (mei) — people (formal)
- 番 (ban) — order and rank
- 分 (fun) — minutes
- 時 (ji) — o'clock
- 年 (nen) — years
- ヶ月 (kagetsu) — months (duration)
- 週間 (shuukan) — weeks
- 泊 (haku) — nights of a stay
- 日 (nichi) — days and dates