ゴジュウ
Meanings
Numeric
1. fifty; 50
Pitch accent
ジュ
Composed of
five; 5
ten; 10; (arch.) book containing a collection of poems
Used in vocabulary (8 in total)
the Japanese syllabary
stiff shoulders (usu. owing to age); frozen shoulder
fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)
jubilee; semicentennial
at age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven
the Japanese syllabary table
life is short; (lit.) life is just fifty years
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; (lit.) fifty today is better than a hundred tomorrow
Examples (8 in total)
There were fifty passengers on board the bus.
The train is traveling at the rate of 50 miles an hour.
A hundred and fifty diplomats came to that conference.