Kanji 万 — "Ten Thousand"
Here is what 万 means, how it is read, what it is built from, and a story that makes "Ten Thousand" stick.
How it is read
まん, ばん
the reading borrowed from Chinese — usually appears in compound words
よろず
the native Japanese reading — usually appears when the kanji stands alone
How to remember it
Kanji are not random strokes. Learn the parts and the whole becomes easy. Put the parts together into one picture. The stranger it is, the harder it is to forget.
One gift Wrapped in gold — it must be worth Ten Thousand yen!
- ⼀ One
A single stroke counts as the number One, see? Japanese is that simple!
- 勹 Wrap
The shape of a hand about to grasp and Wrap something inside.
Words that use 万
7 of 7 words in the app that contain this kanji — the most common ones first.
- 万 まん ten thousand
- 万歳 ばんざい banzai, Long live ~!
- 万人 ばんにん all people, everybody, 10000 people
- 万一 まんいち by some chance, if by any chance
- 万年筆 まんねんひつ fountain pen
- 万能 ばんのう all-purpose, almighty, omnipotent
- 万里の長城 ばんりのちょうじょう the Great Wall of China
Want 万 to still be there next month?
Reading it once is not remembering it. The app brings each kanji back right before you would have forgotten it.
