万
wànmòWàn HSK2

ten thousand

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Edited explanation

Changed fields: hint

Original meaning: to not be seen

Simplified form of 萬. Originally a pictograph of a scorpion. The current meaning is a phonetic. The simplified character 万 was adapted from the cursive form of the traditional character 萬.

Components

一
一 Iconic component
yī one

Used here to depict a cover.

人
人 Iconic component
rén, ren person

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Jin 266-420 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangmans
mɯːɡ

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.701黃德寬《古文字譜系疏證》p.2839-2840
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica