Japanese Numbers - Learning Resources

Numbers - Reading¶

Hiragana is included as a phonetic aid, when writing the numbers down kanji is used. Note that u and i at the end of words are generally silent, so six is spoken as rok but sixth-dan as rokudan.

Shuffled

Ordered

from jupytercards import display_flashcards
import csv

file = "numbers_reading.csv"
with open(file, newline="", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    data = list(csv.DictReader(f, delimiter=';'))
result = data.copy()
for d in data:
    result.append({'front': d['back'], 'back': d['front']})
data = result
display_flashcards(data, shuffle_cards=True)

from jupytercards import display_flashcards
import csv

file = "numbers_reading.csv"
with open(file, newline="", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    data = list(csv.DictReader(f, delimiter=';'))
result = data.copy()
for d in data:
    result.append({'front': d['back'], 'back': d['front']})
data = result
display_flashcards(data, shuffle_cards=False)

Numbers - Kanji¶

Shuffled

Ordered

from jupytercards import display_flashcards
import csv

file = "numbers_kanji.csv"
with open(file, newline="", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    data = list(csv.DictReader(f, delimiter=';'))
result = data.copy()
for d in data:
    result.append({'front': d['back'], 'back': d['front']})
data = result
display_flashcards(data, shuffle_cards=True)

from jupytercards import display_flashcards
import csv

file = "numbers_kanji.csv"
with open(file, newline="", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    data = list(csv.DictReader(f, delimiter=';'))
result = data.copy()
for d in data:
    result.append({'front': d['back'], 'back': d['front']})
data = result
display_flashcards(data, shuffle_cards=False)

Ordinal Numbers¶

Japanese ordinal numbers such as Ipponme and Nihonme are often prepended to names or used to directly refer to Kata or Kihon within a set.

Shuffled

Ordered

from jupytercards import display_flashcards
import csv

file = "ordinal_numbers.csv"
with open(file, newline="", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    data = list(csv.DictReader(f, delimiter=';'))
result = data.copy()
for d in data:
    result.append({'front': d['back'], 'back': d['front']})
data = result
display_flashcards(data, shuffle_cards=True)

from jupytercards import display_flashcards
import csv

file = "ordinal_numbers.csv"
with open(file, newline="", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    data = list(csv.DictReader(f, delimiter=';'))
result = data.copy()
for d in data:
    result.append({'front': d['back'], 'back': d['front']})
data = result
display_flashcards(data, shuffle_cards=False)