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萬
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷
万
🇨🇳

ten thousand

HSK 10
Abstract →Numbers
wàn
マン、バン
よろず
만
Originally a pictograph of a scorpion. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
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Historical Evolution
Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Bronze
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Bronze Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Bronze
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Bronze Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Bronze
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Bronze Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Bronze
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Bronze Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Bronze
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Bronze Mid Warring States (~300 BC)
Bronze
Mid Warring States (~300 BC)
Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
Clerical
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
萬
Regular
Modern
Chinese
万 / 萬 [Wàn]
surname Wan
万 / 萬 [wàn]
ten thousand; a great number
Japanese
万 ばん 同音
adverb completely; absolutely; totally (with neg. sentence)
万 、 萬 (old) まん 、 よろず 同音

numeric

  1. 10,000; ten thousand (萬 is sometimes used in legal documents)

noun

  1. myriad
  2. everything; all
  3. archaic various
萬 ワン 、 マン 同音
counter mahjong counter for character tiles
Example Sentences
🇯🇵 (1)
４０万ガロンの石油がパイプラインから溢れ出た。
400,000 gallons of oil have spilled out of the pipeline.
Japanese Names
萬 ばん
Ban surname
萬 まん
Man female given namesurname
萬 まんざき
Manzaki surname
萬 まんとく
Mantoku surname
萬 よろず
Yorozu surname
萬 よろづ
Yorozu surname
CHINESE WORDS (200)
万岁 [wàn​suì] #3,015
Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!
千万 [qiān​wàn] #1,709
ten million
万分 [wàn​fēn] #6,604
very much
万能 [wàn​néng] #6,603
omnipotent
万物 [wàn​wù] #7,896
all living things
万科 [Wàn​kē] #8,669
Vanke, large Chinese real estate company, founded in 1984
上万 [shàng​wàn] #17,448
over ten thousand
万一 [wàn​yī] #2,484
just in case
成千上万 [chéng​qiān​shàng​wàn] #5,162
lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers
百万 [bǎi​wàn] #2,776
million
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JAPANESE WORDS (12)
⭐ １００万 [ひゃくまん] #11,561
1,000,000
⭐ １０万 [じゅうまん] #12,888
100,000
万華鏡 [まんげきょう] #36,148
kaleidoscope
万葉集 [まんようしゅう] #49,143
Man'yōshū (8th century anthology of Japanese poetry)
千客万来 [せんきゃくばんらい] #62,721
flood of customers
万歳 [まんざい] #158,101
door-to-door manzai
万子 [ワンズ] #177,284
character tiles
三河万歳 [みかわまんざい] #200,338
Mikawa manzai
万次郎鉱 [まんじろうこう]
manjiroite
萬里蟹 [バンリガニ]
Wanli Crab (brand name for crab caught in the Wanli district of Taiwan)
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KOREAN WORDS (32)
만난 #1,170
all difficulties; all obstacles
만세 #1,899
future
만일 #2,666
supposing
수만 #3,632
tens of thousands
백만 #4,341
million
수백만 #6,545
millions
십만 #11,997
hundred thousand
천만 #21,384
ten million; millions of times
만수 #30,290
longevity
금전만능
materialism; the almighty dollar
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