万

万

Meanings: ten thousand, 10000 On Readings: マン man, バン ban Kun Readings: よろず yorozu Most Used Pronunciation: man JLPT Level: 4 (see all JLPT 4 kanji) Grade: 1 Kanji Part: 一 Stroke Number: 3

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Common jukugo
百万 - ひゃく　まん hyaku man - a million (1,000,000) [100 &10,000]
一万円 - いち　まん　えん ichi man en - 10,000 yen (about $100 US)
万歳 - ばん　ざい ban zai - hurrah! banzai! hooray! [usually said 3 times in a row]

Useful Examples
Japanese: 一万円が欲しい。
Romaji: ichi man en ga hoshii
English: I want 10,000 yen.

Japanese: この時計は一万円だった。
Romaji: kono tokei wa ichiman'en datta.
English: This watch cost me ten thousand yen.

Japanese: 日本の人口は約１億２千万人です。
Romaji: nihon no jinkou wa yaku ichioku nisenman nin desu.
English: The population of Japan is about 120 million.

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Notes/Mnemonic
The next in numbers. add another 0

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Many example sentences are from the Tanaka Corpus as modified for use with WWWJDIC.