二ふた十そ路じ

noun

age twenty; one's twenties

A somewhat literary or old-fashioned way to refer to the age of twenty or the decade of one's twenties. In modern Japanese, 二十歳 (はたち) is more common for the exact age, and 二十代 (にじゅうだい) for the decade.

• 彼かの女じょはまだ二ふた十そ路じの若わかさだ。

  She is still young, in her twenties.

• 二ふた十そ路じを迎むかえたばかりの頃ころは、何なにもかもが新しん鮮せんだった。

  When I had just turned twenty, everything felt fresh.