twenty-one

See also: twentyone and twenty one

English

English numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: twenty-one     Ordinal: twenty-first     Adverbial: twenty-one times

Alternative forms

• twenty one
• twentyone

Pronunciation

• enPR: twĕn'tē wŭnʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌtwɛntiˈwʌn/
• (parts of the UK) IPA^(key): /ˌtwɛntiˈwɒn/
• (parts of the US and Canada) enPR: twŭn'tē wŭnʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌtwʌntiˈwʌn/

• Audio (US):

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Numeral

twenty-one

1. The cardinal number occurring after twenty and before twenty-two, represented in Roman numerals as XXI and in Arabic numerals as 21.

Synonyms

• eleventeen (nonce word)
• one and twenty
• Arabic numerals: 21
• Roman numerals: XXI

Derived terms

• twenty-first

Translations

cardinal number

• Afrikaans: een-en-twintig (af)
• Amharic: ሃያ አንድ (haya ʾänd)
• Arabic: وَاحِد وَعِشْرُون (wāḥid wa-ʕišrūn)

  Hijazi Arabic: واحد و عشرين (wāḥid u ʕišrīn)

• Armenian: քսանմեկ (hy) (kʻsanmek)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܸܣܪܝܼ ܘܚܲܕ݇ m (ʿisrī w-ḥa), ܥܸܣܪܝܼ ܘܚܕܵܐ f (ʿisrī w-ḥdā)
• Azerbaijani: iyirmi bir (az)
• Basque: hogeita bat (eu)
• Belarusian: два́ццаць адзі́н (dváccacʹ adzín)
• Bengali: একুশ (bn) (ekuś)
• Breton: unan-warn-ugent
• Bulgarian: двадесет и едно (dvadeset i edno)
• Burmese: နှစ်ဆယ့်တစ် (hnachcai.tac)
• Catalan: vint-i-un (ca)
• Cebuano: kawhaa`g usa, bayente uno
• Central Sierra Miwok: naˀ·á- kéŋ·e-ˀ hej·i-ˀ
• Chechen: ткъе цхьаъ (tqʼe cḥʳaʔ)
• Cherokee: ᏔᎵᏍᎪ ᏌᏬ (talisgo sawo)
• Chichewa: makumi awiri n'chimodzi
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 二十一 (ji⁶ sap⁶ jat¹), 廿一 (yue) (jaa⁶ jat¹)

  Mandarin: 二十一 (zh) (èrshíyī)

  Wu: 廿一 (⁶gnie-iq)

• Classical Nahuatl: cempōhualli oncē
• Czech: dvacet jedna (cs)
• Danish: enogtyve (da)
• Dhivehi: އެކާވީސް (ekāvīs)
• Dutch: eenentwintig (nl) f
• Esperanto: dudek unu
• Estonian: kakskümmend üks (et)
• Ewe: blaeve vo ɖekɛ
• Faroese: ein og tjúgu
• Fijian: ruasagavulu ka dua
• Finnish: kaksikymmentäyksi (fi)
• French: vingt-et-un (fr) m
• Galician: vinte e un (gl)
• Georgian: ოცდაერთი (ocdaerti)
• German: einundzwanzig (de) f
• Greek: είκοσι ένα (el) (eíkosi éna)
• Gujarati: એકવીસ (gu) (ekavīs)
• Haitian Creole: venteyen
• Hebrew: עשרים־ואחד (esrím və-ekhád)
• Hindi: इक्कीस (hi) (ikkīs)
• Hungarian: huszonegy (hu)
• Icelandic: tuttugu og einn (is)
• Indonesian: dua puluh satu
• Interlingua: vinti-un
• Irish: fiche a haon, aon is fiche
• Italian: ventuno (it)
• Japanese: 二十一 (nijūichi)
• Javanese: salikur (jv), selikur (jv)
• Kannada: ಇಪ್ಪತ್ತೊಂದು (kn) (ippattondu)
• Kazakh: жиырма бір (jiyrma bır)
• Khmer: ម្ភៃមួយ (mpʰey muəy)
• Korean: 스물 하나 (seumul hana)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بیست و یەک (bîst û yek)

• Kyrgyz: жыйырма бир (jıyırma bir)
• Lakota: wikčémna núŋpa aké waŋží
• Lao: ຊາວເອັດ (sāo ʼet)
• Latin: viginti unus (la)
• Latvian: divdesmit viens (lv)
• Louisiana Creole French: vin-ché-un
• Lü: ᦌᦱᧁᦵᦀᧆ (saaw˙ʼed)
• Macedonian: два́есет и е́ден (dváeset i éden)
• Malay: dua puluh satu, selikur, satu likur
• Malayalam: ഇരുപത്തൊന്ന് (irupattonnŭ), ഇരുപത്തിയൊന്ന് (irupattiyonnŭ)
• Maltese: wieħed u għoxrin
• Manchu: ᠣᡵᡳᠨ
  ᡝᠮᡠ (orin emu)
• Maori: rua tekau mā tahi (mi), rua ngahuru mā tahi (older term)
• Navajo: naadįįłaʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tjueen, tjueén

  Nynorsk: tjueein

• Ojibwe: niishtanashi-bezhig
• Old English: ān and twēntiġ
• Pennsylvania German: een un zwansich
• Persian: بیست و یک (bist-o-yek)
• Polish: dwadzieścia jeden (pl)
• Portuguese: vinte e um (pt)
• Punjabi: ਇੱਕੀ (ikkī)
• Quechua: iskay chunka hukniyuq
• Romanian: douăzeci și unu
• Russian: два́дцать оди́н (ru) (dvádcatʹ odín)
• Samoan: luasefulu tasi
• Sanskrit: एकविंशति (sa) (ékaviṃśati)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: двадесет и један

  Roman: dvadeset i jedan

• Shan: သၢဝ်းဢဵတ်း (sáao ʼáet)
• Slovene: enaindvajset (sl)
• Spanish: veintiuno (es) m
• Swedish: tjugoett (sv), tjugoen
• Sylheti: ꠄꠇꠂꠡ (exoiśo)
• Tagalog: beynte uno, dalawmpu't isa
• Telugu: ఇరవై ఒకటి (iravai okaṭi)
• Thai: ยี่สิบเอ็ด (yîi-sìp-èt)
• Tok Pisin: tupela ten wan
• Tongan: uofulu mā taha
• Turkish: yirmi bir (tr)
• Ukrainian: два́дцять оди́н (dvádcjatʹ odýn)
• Urdu: اکیس (ikkīs)
• Uyghur: يىگىرمە بىر (yigirme bir)
• Vietnamese: hai mươi mốt
• Volapük: teldegbal, telsebal (older term, obsolete)
• Welsh: un ar hugain (vigesimal, traditional), dau ddeg un (cy) (decimal), trisaith (obsolete)
• West Frisian: ienentweintich (fy)
• Yiddish: איין און צוואַנציק (eyn un tsvantsik)
• Yup'ik: yuinaq atauciq

See also

• twenty
• twenty-two

Noun

twenty-one (uncountable)

1. (card games) Blackjack.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 398:

     They were to spend many an evening together sitting round the old kitchen table playing twentyone [...].

2. (sports) A basketball-based game in which players attempt to score exactly twenty-one points.

Translations

blackjack card game

• Danish: enogtyve (da)
• Dutch: eenentwintigen (nl) n
• French: vingt-et-un (fr) m
• Portuguese: vinte-e-um m
• Swedish: tjugoett (sv) n

See also

• baccarat
• blackjack
• pontoon