万

• 読み: まん
• ローマ字: man
• 漢字の分解: 万 (man/ban) — ten thousand
• 発音: /maɴ/

意味

Ten thousand; 10,000. A fundamental large number unit unique to the Japanese counting system.

Read as まん. Unlike English which groups numbers by thousands, Japanese groups by ten-thousands (万). This means 100,000 is 十万 (juu-man) and 1,000,000 is 百万 (hyaku-man). Essential for understanding prices, populations, and statistics in Japanese. Also used in expressions like 万一 (man-ichi, by any chance) and 万歳 (banzai, hooray).

例文

1. この自転車は二万円です。
2. 東京の人口は千四百万人です。
3. 一万円札を両替してください。

使い方ガイド

場面: counting, prices, statistics

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

The kanji 万 is a simplification of the ancient character 萬, which depicted a scorpion — its large number meaning was assigned phonetically in Chinese and inherited by Japanese.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal