N5 Kanji Course

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Marshall

N5 Kanji 13: 万

Meaning of kanji 万:

In Japanese, 万 means “ten thousand”.

How to read kanji 万:

Kunyomi	Not often used
Onyomi	まん、ばん

How to write kanji 万:

Origin of kanji 万:

The original meaning of 万 is scorpion，a scorpion has everything，such as pliers，body and tail，so we use it to stand for a number，which is ten thousand， you can remember it as “even if you have ten thousand lives，you will die if you got stung.”

Development of kanji 万:

Vocabulary containing kanji 万:

Word	Reading	Meaning
一万	いちまん	ten thousand
二万	にまん	twenty thousand
三万	さんまん	thirty thousand
四万	よんまん	forty thousand
五万	ごまん	fifty thousand
六万	ろくまん	sixty thousand
七万	ななまん	seventy thousand
八万	はちまん	eighty thousand
九万	きゅうまん	ninety thousand
万能	ばんのう	universal

Example Sentences of kanji 万:

一万円いちまんえん以い上じょうします。
It will cost more than ten thousand yen.

万年筆まんねんひつって持もってる？
Do you have a fountain pen?

彼かれは月つきに３０万円まんえん稼かせぐ。
He earns 300,000 yen a month.

彼かれは私わたしに三万円さんまんえんくれた。
He gave me 30,000 yen.

準じゅん備びは万端ばんたんです。
Everything is ready.

Example Sentences of kanji 万

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