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萬 - Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 140, +9, 13 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 12 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿田中月 (TWLB), four-corner 44427, composition )

Derived characters

萬 - Chinese

trad.
simp. *
alternative forms
 
𤍚 𢁭 𥝄 𥝅

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Old Chinese
*m·raːds, *m·rads, *m·raːd
*m·raːds, *m·rads
*hmreːds, *r̥ʰaːd
*mraːds
*mraːds
*m̥ʰraːds
*m·rads
*m·rads
*m·rads
*m·rads
*m·rads
*m·rads
濿 *m·rads
*m·rads
*m·rads
*m·rads, *mlans
*mlans

Pictogram (象形) scorpion. This character's original meaning has been lost, and the derivative (OC *m̥ʰraːds) refers to the original word.

Pronunciation

  • Mandarin
    • (Standard)
      • (Pinyin): wàn (wan4)
      • (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˋ
    • (Chengdu, SP): wan4
    • (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): ван (van, III)
  • Cantonese
    • (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): maan6
      • (Taishan, Wiktionary): man5
    • Gan (Wiktionary): uan5
    • Hakka
      • (Sixian, PFS): van
      • (Meixian, Guangdong): van4
    • Jin (Wiktionary): van3
    • Min Bei (KCR): uāing
    • Min Dong (BUC): uâng
    • Min Nan
      • (Hokkien, POJ): bān
      • (Teochew, Peng'im): bhuêng7 / bhuang7
    • Wu (Wiktionary): 3me; 3ve
    • Middle Chinese: /mʉɐnH/
    • Old Chinese
      • (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.ma[n]-s/
      • (Zhengzhang): /*mlans/

    Definitions

    1. (obsolete) Original form of (chài, “scorpion”).
    2. (historical) A ritual dance in ancient China.
    3. myriad, ten thousand, 10000
      •    liǎng wàn yuán   twenty thousand dollars
      • 一百一百   yībǎi wàn   one million
      • 同胞同胞   wàn wàn tóngbāo   four hundred million compatriots
      •    wànsuì   ten thousand years; hooray; long live
    4. (figurative) a great number; myriad; numerous
    5. very; extremely; absolutely
    6. a surname

    Compounds

    Descendants

    Sino-Xenic ():

    Others:

    • Bouyei: faanh (ten thousand), Wanq (surname)
    • Proto-Hmong: *wi̯aŋꟲ (ten thousand)
    • Kavalan: ban (ten thousand)
    • Khmer: ម៉ឺន (məɨn), ហ្មឺន (məɨn, ten thousand; official rank)
    • Lao: ໝື່ນ (mư̄n), ຫມື່ນ (mư̄n, ten thousand; official rank)
    • Middle Korean: 즈믄 (cumun, thousand)
    • Middle Mongol: ᠲᠦᠮᠡᠨ (tümen, ten thousand)
      • English: tumen (an army unit of 10,000 soldiers, among the ancient Mongols)
      • Khalkha Mongolian: ᠲᠦᠮᠡ (tüme) / түм (tüm)
      • Persian: تومان (tumân)
        • English: toman (former currency of Iran)
      • Russian: Тюмень (Tjumenʹ, Tyumen)
        • English: Tyumen (city in Russia)
    • Shan: မိုၼ်ႇ (mùen, ten thousand)
    • Thai: หมื่น (mʉ̀ʉn, ten thousand; official rank)
    • Proto-Tocharian:
      • Tocharian A: tmāṃ (ten thousand)
      • Tocharian B: t(u)māne (ten thousand, a myriad)
    • Proto-Tungusic:
    • Proto-Turkic: *Tümen (ten thousand; an infinitely large number)
      • Turkish: tümen (ten thousand)
    • Vietnamese: muôn (𨷈, ten thousand; all, many), man (ten thousand)
    • Zhuang: fanh (ten thousand)

    萬 - Japanese

    Kanji

    (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

    1. ten thousand

    Readings

    Compounds

    Proper noun

    (よろず) (Yorozu) よろづ (yorodu)?

    1. a surname

    (よろづ) (Yorozu) 

    1. a surname

    Proper noun

    (ばん) (Ban) 

    1. a surname

    Proper noun

    (まん) (Man) 

    1. a female given name
    2. a surname

    萬 - Korean

    Pronunciation

    • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [ma̠(ː)n]
    • Phonetic hangul: [(ː)]
      • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

    Hanja

    (eumhun (一萬) (ilman man))

    1. Hanja form? of (ten thousand).
    2. Hanja form? of (myriad).

    Compounds

    萬 - Vietnamese

    Han character

    : Hán Việt readings: vạn, muôn : Nôm readings: vạn, vàn, mại, vẹn, muôn

    Noun

    1. chữ Hán form of vạn, muôn (ten thousand).

    Derived terms

    Meaning and Definition of 萬
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