萬

萬 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+9, 13 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 12 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿田中月 (TWLB), four-corner 4442₇, composition ⿱艹禺)

• 㒖, 噧, 𫮮, 𡽇, 𢶯, 澫, 𤢥, 邁, 𦼌, 𣜜, 燤, 𤛶, 𥖣, 𥜍, 䊪, 𬚑, 蠇, 䜕, 贎, 𧾗, 𨆣, 𨲴, 𡳱, 𨭬, 𬒪, 𫙽, 𪒪
• 勱, 𪵒, 𧄴, 䖁, 厲, 𫴆, 𭙿, 癘, 𰤅, 𨷈, 𥍈, 𰊶, 𬞒, 𦽳, 蠆, 躉, 䘍, 𪯁, 𬯥, 𨙗

• 万 (Japanese shinjitai and Simplified Chinese)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1042, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31339
• Dae Jaweon: page 1501, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3247, character 8
• Unihan data for U+842C

Historical forms of the character 萬
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – scorpion. This character's original meaning has been lost, and the derivative 蠆 (OC *m̥ʰraːds) refers to the original word.

“scorpion”

See 蠆 (OC *m̥ʰraːds).

“religious dance; sorcery”

Perhaps from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-man (“medicine”). Compare Tibetan སྨན (sman, “medicine; she-demons worshipped by common folk”), Burmese မန်း (man:, “utter mystic words to heal or ward off evil”).

“myriad; ten thousand”

Schuessler (2007) considers the etymology of this sense Sino-Tibetan and compares it with Tibetan འབུམ ('bum, “hundred thousand; complete; entire; multifarious”). Similar words are found in branches of Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Tocharian; here they are treated as very old loanwords from Chinese, per Pulleyblank (apud Clauson, 1972), Beckwith (2009), Adams (2013) and Tremblay (2005).

萬

1. (obsolete) Original form of 蠆／虿 (chài, “scorpion”).
2. (historical) A ritual dance in ancient China.
3. myriad, ten thousand, 10000

   兩萬元／两万元  ―  liǎng wàn yuán  ―  twenty thousand dollars

   一百萬／一百万  ―  yībǎi wàn  ―  one million

   四萬萬同胞／四万万同胞  ―  sì wàn wàn tóngbāo  ―  four hundred million compatriots

   萬歲／万岁  ―  wànsuì  ―  ten thousand years; hooray; long live

4. (figurative) a great number; myriad; numerous

   萬眾一心／万众一心  ―  wànzhòngyīxīn  ―  all united

   排除萬難／排除万难  ―  páichúwànnán  ―  to remove all difficulties

5. very; extremely; absolutely

   萬不得已／万不得已  ―  wànbùdéyǐ  ―  out of absolute necessity; with no other choice

6. a surname

   • 萬里同志，原名萬明禮，1916年12月出生於山東省東平縣一個貧民家庭。 [MSC, trad.]
     万里同志，原名万明礼，1916年12月出生于山东省东平县一个贫民家庭。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: “万里同志生平”, in People's Daily (in Chinese), 2015 July 23, page 4

     Wàn Lǐ tóngzhì, yuánmíng Wàn Mínglǐ, 1916 nián 12 yuè chūshēng yú Shāndōng xǐng Dōngpíng xiàn yī ge pínmín jiātíng. [Pinyin]

     Comrade Wan Li, whose original name was Wan Mingli, was born to a poor family in Dongping County, Shandong Province in December 1916.

Others:

• → Bouyei: faanh (“ten thousand”), Wanq (surname)
• → Proto-Hmong: *wi̯aŋꟲ (“ten thousand”)
• → Kavalan: ban (“ten thousand”)
• → Khmer: ម៉ឺន (məɨn), ហ្មឺន (məɨn, “ten thousand; official rank”)
• → Lao: ໝື່ນ (mư̄n), ຫມື່ນ (mư̄n, “ten thousand; official rank”)
• → Middle Korean: 즈믄 (cumun, “thousand”)
• → Middle Mongol: ᠲᠦᠮᠡᠨ (tümen, “ten thousand”)
  • → English: tumen (“an army unit of 10,000 soldiers, among the ancient Mongols”)
  • Khalkha Mongolian: ᠲᠦᠮᠡ (tüme) / түм (tüm)
  • → Persian: تومان (tumân)
    • → English: toman (“former currency of Iran”)
  • → Russian: Тюмень (Tjumenʹ, “Tyumen”)
    • → English: Tyumen (“city in Russia”)
• → Shan: မိုၼ်ႇ (mùen, “ten thousand”)
• → Thai: หมื่น (mʉ̀ʉn, “ten thousand; official rank”)
• → Proto-Tocharian:
  • Tocharian A: tmāṃ (“ten thousand”)
  • Tocharian B: t_(u)māne (“ten thousand, a myriad”)
• → Proto-Tungusic:
  • Manchu: ᡨᡠᠮᡝᠨ (tumen, “ten thousand”)
    • → Chinese: 圖們／图们 (Túmén, “Tumen, city in China”), 圖們江／图们江 (Túmén Jiāng, “Tumen River, boundary river between China, North Korea and Russia”)
      • → English: Tumen (“city in China”)
      • → Korean: 도문 (圖們, Domun, “Tumen”)
    • → Middle Korean: 투먼〮가ᇰ (Thwùmén-kàng, “Tumen River”)
      • → Korean: 두만강 (豆滿江, Duman'gang, “Tumen River”)
• → Proto-Turkic: *tümen (“ten thousand; an infinitely large number”)
  • Turkish: tümen (“ten thousand”)
• → Vietnamese: muôn (𨷈, “ten thousand; all, many”), man (“ten thousand”)
• → Zhuang: fanh (“ten thousand”)

• “萬”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “Entry #9891”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 万)

1. ten thousand

• Go-on: もん (mon)
• Kan-on: ばん (ban)
• Kan’yō-on: まん (man)
• Kun: よろず (yorozu, 萬)^{←よろづ (yorodu, 萬, historical)}
• Nanori: かず (kazu); かつ (katsu); すすむ (susumu); たか (taka); つむ (tsumu); つもる (tsumoru); ま (ma); ゆる (yuru); よし (yoshi)

⟨yo₂ro₂du⟩ → */jərədu/ → /jorod͡zu/ → /jorozu/

From Old Japanese, first attested in the Kojiki (712 CE). See 万 for more senses.

萬(よろず) • (Yorozu) ^{←よろづ (yorodu)?}

1. a surname

萬(よろづ) • (Yorozu) 

1. a surname

From Middle Chinese 萬 (MC mjonH). See 万 for more senses.

萬(ばん) • (Ban) 

1. a surname

Likely a shift from ban above. See 万 for more senses.

萬(まん) • (Man) 

1. a female given name
2. a surname

From Middle Chinese 萬 (MC mjonH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ma̠(ː)n]
• Phonetic hangul: [만(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Wikisource 萬 (eumhun 일만(一萬) 만 (ilman man))

1. Hanja form^? of 만 (“ten thousand”).
2. Hanja form^? of 만 (“myriad”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

萬: Hán Việt readings: vạn, muôn
萬: Nôm readings: vạn, vàn, mại, vẹn, muôn

萬

1. chữ Hán form of vạn, muôn (“ten thousand”).