Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Time & Sequence

万: ten thousand, 10,000

JLPT N53 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
3 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Today

Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

マンman · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 一万円いちまんえんten thousand yen
  • 万年筆まんねんひつfountain pen
  • 万引きするまんびきするshoplift

バンban · on'yomi

  • 万歳ばんざいbanzai! (cheer)
  • 万能ばんのうall-purpose
  • 万事ばんじeverything

Also read よろず, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Pictogram (象形)

Scorpion. The derivative 蠆 refers to the original word.

Source: Wiktionary, 萬 (rev. 92481227), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“One (一) + a symbol for many. A single character used to represent a vast, "myriad" quantity of ten thousand things—too many to count easily.”
From the 一 one story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
一

Also built on one (一)

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Also read マン

3 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read バン

8 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 萬 · wàn, mò

Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 万. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 萬.

Simplified
万 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
萬 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin wàn, mò most common readings

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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