# 万 — Ten Thousand

Frequency rank 281 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 京 (Capital), less common than 風 (Wind).

- On’yomi: まん、ばん
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 一 One (Kangxi 1)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX
- School grade: 2
- Strokes: 3

One arm rips the truck off the ground and swings it along one waist-high line while the tendons stand out like bridge cable, and the clerk chalking each body onto the ground snaps his chalk at nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine.

In words:

- 万 まん — ten thousand
- 万年筆 まんねんひつ — fountain pen
- 万一 まんいち — by some chance,by some possibility,if by any chance,10E4:1 odds

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