English: ten thousand	On-Yomi: マン バン	Kun-Yomi: よろず かず ま ゆる

Bushu (Radical) Info: 一 (いち) – one

Henshall Mnemonic: ten thousand march in wrong direction

Levels: JLPT N5 | JLPT 4 (old) | Grade 2
Frequency: #375 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:

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JLPT N5 Words

• 万年筆   [まんねんひつ]
  (n) fountain pen   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 万   [まん]
  (adv,num) 10,000; ten thousand; myriads; all; everything   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N4 Words

• 百万   [ひゃくまん]
  (n) 1,000,000; one million   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N3 Words

• 万一   [まんいち]
  (adv,n) by some chance; by some possibility; if by any chance; 10,000:1 odds   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N2 Words

• 万歳   [ばんざい]
  (int,n) hurrah; long life; congratulations; cheers   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N1 Words

• 万能   [ばんのう]
  (adj-no,n) all-purpose; almighty; omnipotent   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 万人   [ばんじん]
  (n) (1) all people; everybody; (2) ten thousand people   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 万人   [ばんにん]
  (n) (1) all people; everybody; (2) ten thousand people   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT

• 万年   [まんねん]
  ten thousand years; eternity   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 十万   [じゅうまん]
  100,000; hundred thousand   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 万里   [ばんり]
  (n) thousands of miles   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 万が一   [まんがいち]
  (adv,n) if by any chance; 10000 to 1   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 万引   [まんびき]
  (n,vs) shoplifting; shoplifter   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 万引き   [まんびき]
  (n,vs) shoplifting; shoplifter   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 万国   [ばんこく]
  (n) all countries; the whole world; universal; all nations   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 万歳   [まんざい]
  (n) strolling comic dancer   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 万事   [ばんじ]
  (n) all; everything   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 万全   [ばんぜん]
  (adj-na,n) perfection   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 数万   [すうまん]
  tens of thousands   [K] [D] [Jisho]

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Acknowledgments

The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.

NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.

The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.

Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.

The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.

If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.