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"Dozen noun, determiner
a group of twelve of the same thing
Give me a dozen, please.
two dozen eggs
three dozen red roses
half a dozen bottles of wine
a half-dozen bottles of wine"
dozens (informal) a lot of people or things
dozens of something I've been there dozens of times.
We interviewed dozens and dozens of people.
in dozens They arrived in dozens (= in large numbers).
Babies are turning up in their dozens to be snapped for the paper's Baby of the Year competition."
That's what I found in the Oxford Dictionary. You must speak English so you must know more than me, however, the kanji used is a reference to 10 and not 12.