万 (wàn) — ten thousand
Definition
万 (wàn) means ten thousand. It fits between 千 (thousand) and 亿 (hundred million) in the large-number scale.
numeral
ten thousand
Easily confused
Examples
- 。Gōng yuán lǐ yǒu yí wàn duǒ huā.There are ten thousand flowers in the park.
- 。Tā yǒu yí wàn kuài qián.He has ten thousand yuan.
- 。Xué xiào yǒu bā wàn gè xué shēng.The school has eighty thousand students.
Origin
Pictograph六书liùshū
象形xiàngxíngA drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.
This origin belongs to the traditional form 萬; 万 is its simplified writing.
For 万, the form 萬 was originally a picture of a scorpion, later borrowed for its sound to write 'ten thousand'; the scorpion picture is unrelated to that number.
Grammar
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