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Translingual [edit]

Stroke order
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Etymology [edit]

A simplification of the Buddhist symbol introduced when Buddhism came to China. was given the same pronunciation as meaning 萬 (many virtues); so, came to be used as a simplified form of . 万 is simply a scribal form (script) of . The meaning ten thousand for 万 is a borrowing.

Han character [edit]

(radical 1 +2, 3 strokes, cangjie input 一尸 (MS), four-corner 10227)

  1. myriad: ten thousand
  2. myriad: innumerable
  3. letter in Zhuyin fuhao alphabet, representing /vo/ or /v/.

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Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(traditional , jyutping maan6, mak6, Yale maan6, mak6)


Japanese [edit]

Number [edit]

(まん, man)

  1. ten thousand, 10,000

Noun [edit]

(hiragana よろず, romaji yorozu)

  1. ten thousand
  2. a large number
  3. all, everything

Derived terms [edit]

Prefix [edit]

(hiragana ばん, romaji ban-)

  1. many
  2. all

Kanji [edit]

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]


Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: man, McCune-Reischauer: man, Yale: man)
  • Name (hangeul): 일만 (revised: ilman, McCune-Reischauer: ilman)

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Mandarin [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(traditional , pinyin wàn (wan4), Wade-Giles wan4)

Adverb [edit]

  1. absolutely
  2. by all means

Number [edit]

  1. ten thousand
  2. a very large number, myriad

Compounds [edit]