十
Ten / Cross
とお · じゅう
A perfect cross — all ten fingers spread, one stroke in each direction: the fullness of counting.
Hold out both hands with all fingers spread. Count them: ten. Now cross your arms at the wrists — that crossing shape is 十. The cross appears everywhere counting and completeness is found: ten, thousand, years of time.
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