すう
Meanings
Prefix
1. several; a number of
Noun
Suffix
2. quantity; amount
Noun
3. counting; figures; numbers
4. number; numeral; figure
5. grammatical number
6. destiny; fate; course of events; trend
Kanji used
number
Pitch accent
Top 1200
Used in vocabulary (321 in total)
innumerable; countless; numberless
plural; multiple; several
numeral; figure; digit; numeric character
Examples (25 in total)
The number of deaths is increasing.
They won by force of numbers.
Several birds were flying in the air.
That book had a lot of pages.
The damage of the typhoon spread over several prefectures.
We had a few glasses of sangria.
I try to read at least a few pages a day.
The road ran straight for several miles.
Tom had to pay a few more dollars.
The flood victims were housed in several schools.
In hockey and soccer, goals are counted as points.
He is one of the best brains in our country.
She lives a few blocks away from here.
I had read only a few pages before I fell asleep.
You have only to read a few pages of this book.
Warm and humid weather increases the number of crimes.
We still have quite a few more miles to go before we get there.
This is a decimal number.
I only have a few pencils.
He limited the membership to twenty.
The number of students in the class is limited to fifteen.
There are 2,000 students in the school.
There are three different types of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can't.
The toll from the accident was 5 persons dead and 100 persons injured.
The road parallels the river for a few miles.