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万
ten thousand · all · many
N5On: まん、ばんKun: よろず
Memory Aid
'MAN' — A MAN counted ten thousand coins.
'BAN' — They BANned a party of ten thousand people.
The character looks like a person standing with arms wide open, encompassing 'ten thousand' things, or 'all' things.
Vocabulary
一万円いちまんえんten thousand yen
万年筆まんねんひつfountain pen
万歳ばんざいhurrah! long live!
万が一まんがいちby any chance, in the unlikely event
Example Sentences
これは一万円です。
This is ten thousand yen.
万年筆は便利です。
Fountain pens are convenient.
みんなで万歳をしました。
Everyone cheered, "Banzai!"
万が一のために準備しておこう。
Let's prepare just in case.