万 Kanji: Meaning, Readings and Stroke Order

万: ten thousand; myriad; many. JLPT N5; 3 strokes.

Readings

On readings

マン、バン

Kun readings

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Romaji

man, ban

Study notes

万 means "ten thousand" and, by extension, "very many, all".

On readings: マン is the numeric reading: 一万 (いちまん, ten thousand), 百万 (ひゃくまん, one million), 万年筆 (まんねんひつ, fountain pen), 万引き (まんびき, shoplifting), 万一 (まんいち, in the unlikely event that). バン means "all, everything": 万歳 (ばんざい, hooray), 万能 (ばんのう, versatile, universal), 万国 (ばんこく, all countries), 万全 (ばんぜん, perfect, impeccable).

Special readings: 八百万 (やおよろず, myriads) is read as a whole word.

Remember: in Japanese, large numbers are counted in groups of four digits: 1万 = 10,000, 10万 = 100,000, 100万 = 1,000,000; the next group is 億 (おく, one hundred million). The traditional form of the kanji is 萬.

Example words

• 一万円 (いちまんえん) — ten thousand yen
• 万能 (ばんのう) — versatile; all-purpose

Example sentences

このかばんは一万円です。

kono kaban wa ichiman-en desu.

This bag costs ten thousand yen.

Stroke order

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