twenty-one

English

Alternative forms

• twenty one
• twentyone

Pronunciation

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Number

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

• one and twenty
• Arabic numerals: 21
• Roman numerals: XXI

Derived terms

• twenty-first
• twenty-oneth

Translations

cardinal number

• Arabic: واحد وعشرون (wāħid wi-ʕišrun)
• Azeri: iyirmi bir (az)
• Basque: hogeita bat (eu)
• Bengali: একুশ (bn) (ekush)
• Breton: unan-warn-ugent
• Bulgarian: двадесет и едно
• Burmese: နှစ်ဆယ့်တစ် (my) (hnăhsè.tit)
• Catalan: vint-i-un (ca)
• Cebuano: kawhaa`g usa, bayente uno
• Chechen: ткъе цхьаъ (tqe cxha’)
• Chichewa: makumi awiri n'chimodzi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 二十一 (cmn) (èr shí yī)

• Danish: enogtyve (da)
• Dutch: eenentwintig (nl) f
• Esperanto: dudek unu (eo)
• Estonian: kakskümmend üks
• Ewe: blaeve vo ɖekɛ
• Finnish: kaksikymmentäyksi (fi)
• French: vingt-et-un (fr) m
• German: einundzwanzig (de) f
• Greek: είκοσι ένα (eíkosi éna)
• Haitian Creole: venteyen
• Hebrew: עשרים־ואחד (esrím və-ekhád)
• Hindi: इक्कीस (ikkīs)
• Hungarian: huszonegy (hu)
• Icelandic: tuttugu og einn (is)
• Interlingua: vinti-un (ia)
• Irish: fiche a haon (ga), aon is fiche (ga)

• Italian: ventuno (it)
• Japanese: 二十一 (ni-jū-ichí)
• Korean: 스물 하나 (ko) (seumul hana)
• Latin: viginti unus
• Latvian: divdesmit viens
• Macedonian: дваесет и еден (mk) (dváeset i éden)
• Malay: dua puluh satu (ms), selikur (ms), satu likur (ms)
• Maltese: wieħed u għoxrin
• Navajo: naadįįłaʼ
• Norwegian: tjueen (no)
• Novial: duanti-un
• Ojibwe: niishtanashi-bezhig
• Polish: dwadzieścia jeden
• Portuguese: vinte e um
• Romanian: douăzeci și unu (ro)
• Russian: двадцать один (ru) (dvádtsat’ odín)
• Sanskrit: एकविंशति (sa) (ékaviṃśati)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: двадесет и један

  Roman: dvadeset i jedan

• Slovene: enaindvajset (sl)
• Spanish: veintiuno (es) m
• Swedish: tjugoett (sv)
• Tagalog: beintyuno (tl)
• Telugu: ఇరవై ఒకటి (te) (iravai okaTi)
• Turkish: yirmi bir (tr)
• Urdu: اکیس (ikkīs)
• Vietnamese: hai mười mốt
• West Frisian: ienentweintich

See also

• twenty
• twenty-two

Noun

twenty-one

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 n

• Portuguese: vinte-e-um (pt) m
• Swedish: tjugoett (sv) n

See also

• baccarat
• blackjack
• pontoon