Kanji · JLPT N5 · Level 2
万 ten thousand
- Meaning
- ten thousand
- On reading
- マン・バン
- Kun reading
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Memory hook
A lid and a hooked leg. It was once written 萬, a scorpion, of which there were countless. マン. 一万 is 10,000, and Japanese counts in units of ten thousand rather than thousands.
Words that use 万
一万
いちまん
10,000
万年筆
まんねんひつ
fountain pen
How to write 万
Stroke order · 3 strokes
1
2
3
- 1. The horizontal across the top.
- 2. Horizontal across the middle, then turn down, ending in a hook.
- 3. The sweep down to the left.
Stroke data from KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
General rules
- Top to bottom, left to right.
- Horizontal strokes before crossing vertical ones (十 = horizontal, then vertical).
- Outside before inside - but close a box last (口).
- A vertical that passes all the way through comes last (中).
- Left-falling diagonal before right-falling (大).
万 is taught on day 4 of the kanji course, alongside 百 千 円, with two writing passes and a short quiz.