萬

See also: 万

Translingual

Etymology

This character has lost its original meaning of scorpion. The derivative 蠆 refers to the original word.

Han character

萬 (radical 140 艸+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿田中月 (TWLB), four-corner 4442₇, composition ⿱艹禺)

See also

• Chinese Numeral 萬

  Last: 千; Next: 亿, 億.

Derived characters

• 噧 澫 燤 蠇 贎 勱 (劢) 蠆 (虿) 躉 (趸) 厲 (厉) 邁 (迈)

References

• KangXi: page 1042, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31339
• Dae Jaweon: page 1501, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3247, character 8
• Unihan data for U+842C

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Chinese

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trad.		萬
simp.		万

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wàn (wan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁶, mak⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): van
• Min Nan (POJ): bān
• Wu (WT Romanisation): me (T3); ve (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: wan⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wann
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯a̠n⁵¹/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: maan⁶, mak⁶
    • Yale: maahn, mahk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁶, mak⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /mɑːn²² mɐk̚²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: van
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /van⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bān
    • Tâi-lô: bān
    • IPA (Taipei): /ban³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ban²²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: me (T3); ve (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /mᴇ²³/, /v̻ᴇ²³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (萬, reconstructed)
Character (萬), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 元 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 無販切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/mʉɐnH/	/mi̯wɐnH/	/miuɐnH/	/mʷiɐnH/	/muanH/	/mĭwɐnH/	/miuɐnH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (萬, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
萬								wàn								‹ mjonH ›								/*C.ma[n]-s/								10000
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
萬					12633					萬					元					1					万					/*mlans/

Definitions

萬

1. ten thousand; a great number
2. innumerable
3. (archaic) scorpion [1]

See also

• (Chinese written numbers): 零 or 〇， 一， 二， 三， 四， 五， 六， 七， 八， 九， 十， 百， 千， 萬／万， 億／亿

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Japanese

shinjitai	万
simplified	万
traditional	萬

Kanji

萬

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 万)

1. ten thousand

Readings

• On: まん (man), ばん (ban)
• Kun: よろず (yorozu)
• Nanori: かず (kazu), ま (ma), ゆる (yuru), よし (yoshi)

References

JIS: 685F Kuten: 7263 Shift JIS: E4DD EUC-JP: E8DF Frequency: 2125 Nelson: 3984

New Nelson: 5103 Halpern: 2497 Halpern Learners: not listed Heisig: 2969 Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 0a3.8

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

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Hanja

萬 (man)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 만 (McCune-Reischauer: man, Yale: man)

• Name (hangeul): 만 (revised: man, McCune-Reischauer: man, Yale: man)

Noun

萬 (man) (hangeul 만)

1. Hanja form^? of 만, “ten thousand”.

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Vietnamese

Han character

萬 (vạn, vàn, mại, muôn)

Noun

萬

1. Hán tự form of vạn, vàn, mại, muôn, "ten thousand"