Illustration: At a small Japanese confectionery, an apprentice studies a wooden presentation box divided into exactly ten equal compartments in two rows of five. Only one compartment contains a round sweet; the other nine are visibly empty.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

一いち割わり

ichiwari

ten percent

Example sentences

今年ことしは倒産とうさんが一割いちわり減少げんしょうしています。
Business failures are down 10% this year.
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この機械きかいはここで必要ひつような電力でんりょくの１割わりをくう。
This machine consumes 10% of all the power we use.
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彼かれらのうち１割わり以上いじょうがその仕事しごとをすることができる。
Over ten percent of them can do the work.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 一割

一oneOnイチ・イツKunひと-・ひとつ
割proportion; comparativelyOnカツKunわる・わり・わり

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