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

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.

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