thirteen; 13
The ordinary cardinal number 13. Used before counters as in 十三人, 十三歳, and 十三個.
参加者は全部で十三人だった。
There were thirteen participants in all.
妹は今年で十三歳になります。
My younger sister will turn thirteen this year.
king; rank 13 in cards
Card-game use: rank thirteen corresponds to a king. This does not mean a monarch in ordinary language; キング or 王 is used for that.
このカードゲームでは、十三はキングとして扱う。
In this card game, thirteen is treated as a king.
キング is the everyday loanword for the king card, while 十三 is the numeral-based way of referring to the same card rank.
Standard kanji spelling for the number thirteen.
Full-width Arabic numeral form; common in Japanese digital and printed text when numerals are used.
Attested kanji numeral variant, but much less common than 十三 for the ordinary number.
Compound numeral from 十 meaning ten and 三 meaning three; together they conventionally represent 10 + 3, thirteen.