Number

"Number" in Japanese

(issue of a periodical publication)

多寡

taka

(quantity)

kazu

(abstract entity used to describe quantity)

kazu

(numeral)

(mathematics: number)

kazu

(quantity)

数字

sūji

(abstract entity used to describe quantity)

数字

sūji

(numeral)

数詞

sūshi

(numeral)

ban

(used to show the rank of something in a list or sequence)

番号

bangō

(sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, etc.)

番号

bangō

(informal: telephone number)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.