万 – JLPT N5 Kanji, Kanji for 10000, ten thousand (With 3D Visualization)
Kanji for 10000, ten thousand
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万
- Meanings
- 10,000, ten thousand
- Onyomi
- バン, マン
- Kunyomi
- よろず
- Name Readings
- かず, ま, ゆる
- JLPT
- N5
- Grade
- 2
- Frequency
- -
- Kanji Writing Practice
- Practice
Stroke Order
Story
The kanji 万 started as an ancient symbol that looked like a curled shape or a scorpion. In early Chinese writing, it was borrowed for its sound and came to represent the idea of “ten thousand,” meaning a very large number or something countless. Over time, its meaning grew to express “many” or “everything.” In Japanese, 万 still carries this same feeling — something big, complete, or abundant.
Short Story
Originally a borrowed symbol, 万 came to mean “ten thousand.” It represents a great number — something vast, abundant, or complete.
Mnemonic
This kanji declares: a single mark for something countless — 万 means ten thousand, the idea of many beyond easy measure.
Vocabulary Examples
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 万 | まん | 10,000, ten thousand | common JLPT-N5 Numeric |
| 万 | ばん | completely, absolutely, totally | JLPT-N1 Adverb (fukushi) |
| 万年筆 | まんねんひつ | fountain pen | common JLPT-N5 Noun |
| 万一 | まんいち | (unlikely event of) emergency, the worst(-case scenario), 10000 to 1 | common JLPT-N3 Noun |
| 万能 | ばんのう | all-purpose, utility, universal | common JLPT-N1 Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no', Noun |
| 万引き | まんびき | shoplifting, shoplifter | common Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb |
| 万有引力 | ばんゆういんりょく | universal gravitation | Noun |
| 万歳 | ばんざい | banzai, hurray, hurrah, hooray | common JLPT-N2 Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb |
| 万事 | ばんじ | all, everything | common Noun |
| 万が一 | まんがいち | (if) by some chance, by some possibility, in the unlikely event that, 10000 to 1 | common Adverb (fukushi) |