This is the 105th most frequent Japanese word.
二
The Japanese word "二" means "two" in English.
The word '二' is used here as a numeral to quantify the noun 'pencils', indicating the quantity as two.
私は二本の鉛筆を持っています。
I have two pencils.
The word '二' here is utilized within a compound to denote a level or floor, specifying the height of the building.
この建物は二階建てです。
This building is two-stories tall.
In this sentence, '二' serves as an ordinal numeral within the structure '二番目', signifying the sequence as second.