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萬

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See also: 万
萬 U+842C, 萬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-842C
← 萫
[U+842B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 萭 →
[U+842D]

Translingual

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Han character

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(radical 140 + 9)

萬 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+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 ⿱艹禺)

Derived characters

Additional Derived Characters
  • 𫮮, 𡽇, 𢶯, 𤢥, 𦼌, 𣜜, 𥜍, 𤛶, 𥖣, 𬚑, 𧾗, 𨆣, 𲆽, 𨲴, 𡳱, 𨭬, 𬒪, 𫙽, 𪒪
  • 𪵒, 𧄴, 𫴆, 𱵻, 𥍈, 𭙿, 𰤅, 𨷈(𱾣), 𬞒, 𰊶, 𫉨, 𧄌
  • 𪯁, 𬯥, 𨙗

Further reading

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1042, character 33
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31339
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1501, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3247, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+842C
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (萬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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Pictogram (象形) – scorpion. This character's original meaning has been lost, and the derivative 蠆 (OC *m̥ʰraːds) refers to the original word.

Etymology

“scorpion”
See 蠆 (OC *m̥ʰraːds).
“religious dance; sorcery”
Perhaps from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-man (“medicine”). Compare Tibetan སྨན (sman, “medicine; she-demons worshipped by common folk”), Burmese မန်း (man:, “utter mystic words to heal or ward off evil”).
“myriad; ten thousand”
Schuessler (2007) considers the etymology of this sense Sino-Tibetan and compares it with Tibetan འབུམ ('bum, “hundred thousand; complete; entire; multifarious”). Similar words are found in branches of Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Tocharian; here they are treated as very old loanwords from Chinese, per Pulleyblank (apud Clauson, 1972), Beckwith (2009), Adams (2013) and Tremblay (2005).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • bhuêng7 - Chaozhou;
  • bhuang7 - Shantou.
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Definitions

萬

  1. (obsolete) Original form of 蠆／虿 (chài, “scorpion”).
  2. (historical) A ritual dance in ancient China.
  3. myriad, ten thousand, 10000
    兩萬元／两万元  ―  liǎng wàn yuán  ―  twenty thousand dollars
    一百萬／一百万  ―  yībǎi wàn  ―  one million
    四萬萬同胞／四万万同胞  ―  sì wàn wàn tóngbāo  ―  four hundred million compatriots (the population of China from 1910s to 1940s)
    萬歲／万岁  ―  wànsuì  ―  ten thousand years; hooray; long live
  4. (figurative) a great number; myriad; numerous
    萬眾一心／万众一心  ―  wànzhòngyīxīn  ―  all united
    排除萬難／排除万难  ―  páichúwànnán  ―  to remove all difficulties
  5. very; extremely; absolutely
    萬不得已／万不得已  ―  wànbùdéyǐ  ―  out of absolute necessity; with no other choice
  6. a surname

See also

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In Min Nan numbers, the vernacular (白) pronunciation is the more common pronunciation, while the literary (文) reading is used for reading numbers out loud, such as in phone numbers. Please note that this usage is similar to the usage of the variant 幺 for the numeral 一 in Mandarin.

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (萬):
  • → Japanese: 万(まん) (man, “ten thousand”); 万(ばん) (ban, “a great amount”)
  • → Korean: 만(萬) (man, “ten thousand”)
  • → Vietnamese: vạn (萬, “ten thousand”)

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”)

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