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JLPT N5 · Numbers & money

万

まん

ten thousand

Stroke order of 万

万 is written with 3 strokes. Watch the animation, then try writing it yourself.

Memory trick

A long roof line with a hook hanging down, like a giant fishing hook pulling up ten thousand fish.

Parts: 一 top line + hooked stroke (simplified form of 萬, originally a scorpion)

Example sentence

このカメラは三万円です。

このかめらはさんまんえんです。

This camera is thirty thousand yen.

Words with 万

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