Character · Numbers
万
ばんじ banjiまんにち mannichiじゅうごまん jūgomanよろず yorozu
ten thousand
Composition
Origin
Simplified form of 萬, which depicted a scorpion and was borrowed to write the number ten thousand.
In the thoughts
- 万事banjiall things
- 万日mannichiten thousand days
- 十五万jūgoman150,000
Proverbs carrying this character
- 076 人間万事塞翁が馬 Everything in life is like the old man's horse.
- 120 一事が万事 One thing tells all things.
- 198 千日の稽古を鍛とし、万日の稽古を錬とす A thousand days of practice to forge; ten thousand to polish.
- 232 春や昔十五万石の城下かな Spring — long ago, a proud castle town of a hundred fifty thousand koku.
- 290 やまとうたは、人の心を種として、万の言の葉とぞなれりける Japanese poetry has the human heart as its seed, from which grow myriad leaves of words.