十分(じゅっぷん)

Pronunciation

じっぷん is also correct; じゅっぷん is the more common reading today.

Watch out

十分(じゅうぶん) ("enough, sufficient") is written the same way. Read it from context: 十分(じゅっぷん)待(ま)つ (wait ten minutes) vs. 十分(じゅうぶん)待(ま)った (waited long enough).

Counting patterns

• 1: 一分(いっぷん)
• 2: 二分(にふん)
• 3: 三分(さんぷん)
• 4: 四分(よんぷん)
• 5: 五分(ごふん)
• 6: 六分(ろっぷん)
• 7: 七分(ななふん)
• 8: 八分(はっぷん) (also はちふん)
• 9: 九分(きゅうふん)
• 10: 十分(じゅっぷん)