万

ONまん、ばん

KUNよろず

Meanings

ten thousandallmany

How to remember

'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.

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