万 (yorozu) Kanji Meaning: "Ten thousand" | Learn Kanji with Pictures

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Drawing: Too many dots to count, so we call it ten thousand.

万 means ten thousand

Too many dots to count, so we call it ten thousand.

On'yomi

  • マンman
  • バンban

Kun'yomi

  • よろずyorozu

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Common words

  • 万まん10,000; ten thousand
  • 万事ばんじall; everything
  • 万人ばんにんall people; everybody
  • 万一まんいち(unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario)

Through history

  1. Oracle bone script form of 万Oracle bone
  2. Bronze script form of 万Bronze
  3. Seal script form of 萬Seal
  4. Today
Written 萬 before Japan's postwar reform.

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