萬

See also: 万

Translingual

Japanese	万
Simplified	万
Traditional	萬

Han character

萬 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+9, 13 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 12 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿田中月 (TWLB), four-corner 4442₇, composition ⿱艹禺)

Derived characters

• 㒖, 噧, 𫮮, 𡽇, 𢶯, 澫, 𤢥, 𦼌, 𣜜, 燤, 𤛶, 邁, 𥖣, 𥜍, 䊪, 𬚑, 蠇, 䜕, 贎, 𧾗, 𨆣, 𨲴, 𨭬, 𬒪, 𫙽, 𪒪, 勱
• 厲, 𫴆, 𭙿, 癘, 𨷈, 𥍈, 蠆, 躉

Related characters

• 万 (Japanese shinjitai and Simplified Chinese)

Further reading

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

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Chinese

trad.		萬
simp.		万*
alternative forms		㸘 𤍚 𢁭 𥝄 𥝅

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 萬
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (萬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
糲	*m·raːds, *m·rads, *m·raːd
犡	*m·raːds, *m·rads
噧	*hmreːds, *r̥ʰaːd
邁	*mraːds
勱	*mraːds
蠆	*m̥ʰraːds
厲	*m·rads
勵	*m·rads
礪	*m·rads
蠣	*m·rads
蠇	*m·rads
癘	*m·rads
濿	*m·rads
櫔	*m·rads
巁	*m·rads
贎	*m·rads, *mlans
萬	*mlans

This character has lost its original meaning of “scorpion”. The derivative 蠆 (OC *m̥ʰraːds) refers to the original word.

Etymology

“scorpion”

See 蠆 (OC *m̥ʰraːds).

“religious dance; sorcery”

Perhaps from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-man (“medicine”). Compare Tibetan སྨན (sman, “medicine; she-demons worshipped by common folk”), Burmese မန်း (man:, “utter mystic words to heal or ward off evil”).

“myriad; ten thousand”

Schuessler (2007) considers the etymology of this sense Sino-Tibetan and compares it with Tibetan འབུམ ('bum, “hundred thousand; complete; entire; multifarious”). Similar words are found in branches of Altaic and Tocharian; here they are treated as very old loanwords from Chinese, per Pulleyblank (apud Clauson, 1972), Beckwith (2009), Adams (2013) and Tremblay (2005).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 萬

1. ^† Original form of 蠆／虿 (chài, “scorpion”).
2. (historical) A ritual dance in ancient China.
3. myriad, ten thousand, 10000

   萬歲／万岁  ―  wànsuì  ―  ten thousand years; hooray; long live

4. (figurative) a great number
5. innumerable; numerous
6. very; extremely; absolutely
7. a surname

See also

Chinese numbers
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	102	103	104	106	108	1012
Normal (小寫／小写)	〇, 零, 空	一, 蜀	二, 兩／两	三	四	五	六	七	八	九	十	百	千	萬／万, 十千 (Malaysia, Singapore)	百萬／百万, 桶(Philippines), 面桶 (Philippines)	億／亿	兆 (Taiwan) 萬億／万亿 (Mainland China)
Financial (大寫／大写)	零	壹	貳／贰	參／叁	肆	伍	陸／陆	柒	捌	玖	拾	佰	仟

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (萬):

• → Japanese: 万(まん) (man, “ten thousand”); 万(ばん) (ban)
• → Korean: 만(萬) (man, “ten thousand”)
• → Vietnamese: vạn (萬, “ten thousand”)

Others:

• ⇒ Altaic:
  • → Chinese: 頭曼 (OC *doː moːn, “Touman, the first leader (chanyu) of the Xiongnu”)
  • • → Persian: تومان (tumân)
    • Khalkha Mongolian: ᠲᠦᠮᠡ (tüme) / түм (tüm)
  • Tungusic:
    • • → Chinese: 圖們／图们 (Túmén, “Tumen, city in China”), 圖們江／图们江 (Túmén Jiāng, “Tumen River, boundary river between China, North Korea and Russia”)
        • → Korean: 도문 (圖們, domun, “Tumen”)
      • → Korean: 두만강 (豆滿江, duman'gang, “Tumen River”)
  • Korean: 즈믄 (jeumeun, “(obsolete) thousand”)
• → Khmer: ម៉ឺន (məɨn), ហ្មឺន (məɨn, “ten thousand; official rank”)
• → Lao: ໝື່ນ (mư̄n), ຫມື່ນ (mư̄n, “ten thousand; official rank”)
• → Tocharian:
  • Tocharian B: t(u)māne;t_(u)māne;ten thousand, a myriad
• , man (“ten thousand”)

Further reading

• “Entry #9891”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

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Japanese

Shinjitai	万
Kyūjitai	萬

Kanji

萬

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 万)

1. ten thousand

Readings

• Go-on: もん (mon)
• Kan-on: ばん (ban)
• Kan’yō-on: まん (man)
• Kun: よろず (yorozu, 萬)^{←よろづ (yorodu, 萬, historical)}
• Nanori: かず (kazu); かつ (katsu); すすむ (susumu); たか (taka); つむ (tsumu); つもる (tsumoru); ま (ma); ゆる (yuru); よし (yoshi)

Compounds

Compounds

• 萬(マン)子(ズ) (manzu), 萬(ワン)子(ズ) (wanzu)
• 一(イー)萬(ワン) (īwan)
• 二(リャン)萬(ワン) (ryanwan)
• 三(サン)萬(ワン) (sanwan)
• 四(スー)萬(ワン) (sūwan)
• 五(ウー)萬(ワン) (ūwan)
• 六(リュー)萬(ワン) (ryūwan), 六(ロー)萬(ワン) (rōwan)
• 七(チー)萬(ワン) (chīwan)
• 八(パー)萬(ワン) (pāwan)
• 九(チュー)萬(ワン) (chūwan)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
萬
よろず Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

⟨yo₂ro₂du⟩ → */jərədu/ → /jorod͡zu/ → /jorozu/

From Old Japanese, first attested in the Kojiki (712 CE). See 万 for more senses.

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
萬
ばん Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 萬 (MC mjonH). See 万 for more senses.

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
萬
まん Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

Likely a shift from ban above. See 万 for more senses.

Proper noun

1. a female given name

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Korean

Hanja

萬 • (man)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 만
  • Name (hangeul): 만
    

Noun

萬 • (man) (hangeul 만)

1. hanja form^? of 만 (“ten thousand”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

萬: Hán Nôm readings: vạn, vàn, mại, muôn

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 萬

1. chữ Hán form of vạn, vàn, mại, muôn (“ten thousand”).