HSK 3 · Common Objects

万 wàn “ten thousand” in Chinese

Traditional 萬

What 万 means

  1. ten thousand
  2. a great number

How to say 万

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale万wàn4th tone, falling

万 in a sentence

  1. 如果你有一万美元，你想做什么呢？

    Rúguǒ nǐ yǒu yí wàn měiyuán, nǐ xiǎng zuò shénme ne?

    If you had ten thousand US dollars, what would you do?

    Sentence #1426521 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 一万日元够吗？

    Yí wàn rìyuán gòu ma?

    Will ten thousand yen be enough?

    Sentence #7781712 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 成千上万的人想要知道答案。

    Chéngqiān shàngwàn de rén xiǎngyào zhīdao dá'àn.

    Thousands of people wanted to know the answer.

    Sentence #334787 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 万 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 万 (wàn) drawn as one shape
万wànten thousand

万 is a single shape of 3 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 万

万 3 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

万 (wàn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 万 (wàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 万

Words with 万

千万qiānwàn · be sure to万一wànyī · just in case万分wànfēn · extremely

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FAQs

万 (wàn) means “ten thousand” or “a great number”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it wàn: wàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 万 is written 萬. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 万 from the suggestions. Typing wan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
万 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.