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Mythic Mandarin

万 (wàn): meaning and stroke order

万 (wàn) means ten thousand, a great number, surname Wan, used in 万俟.

万

Simplified
万
Traditional
萬, 万
Pinyin
wàn · mò

Stroke order of 万

万

  • mò used in 万俟[Mo4 qi2]
  • Wàn surname Wan
  • wàn ten thousand; a great number
  • 3 strokes
  • Traditional form: 萬

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 万

  1. wàn Traditional 萬
    • ten thousand
    • a great number
  2. Wàn Traditional 萬
    • surname Wan
  3. mò
    • used in 万俟[Mo4 qi2]

Radical and structure

万
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 3 strokes · built from 丆 and 𠃌

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 万

万 in our stories

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  • 后来,一位懂茶的朋友告诉他,这块三十多年的老茶饼,能卖好几万块。

    hòulái yí wèi dǒng chá de péngyou gàosu tā zhè kuài sānshí duō nián de lǎo chábǐng néng mài hǎojǐ wàn kuài

    Later a friend who knew about tea told him that this thirty-year-old tea cake could sell for tens of thousands of yuan.

    From the story Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6

  • 没想到,秦军早已在后面切断了赵军的粮道,四十多万赵军被团团围住。

    méi xiǎngdào Qín jūn zǎoyǐ zài hòumiàn qiēduàn le Zhào jūn de liángdào sìshí duō wàn Zhào jūn bèi tuántuán wéi zhù

    He never expected that the Qin had already cut the Zhao supply lines behind him, and more than four hundred thousand Zhao troops were completely surrounded.

    From the story Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 万

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).