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万 wàn — “ten thousand”

How to write and say the Chinese character 万 (wàn), which means ten thousand — with stroke order, audio, its story, and an example sentence. Theme: Numbers & counting.

Stroke order笔顺

万 is written with 3 strokes, in this order (the red stroke is the one being added):

The story behind it字源小故事

Once a picture of a scorpion! It was borrowed long ago for the huge number ten thousand.

A common word常用词

Example sentence例句

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