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ten thousand
NumericNounの-AdjectiveAdverb

Definitions

  1. 1. ten thousand
  2. 2. ten thousand
  3. 3. myriad
  4. 4. everything
This is the number ten thousand (10,000) in the Japanese counting system. Because Japanese groups numbers in units of ten thousand rather than one thousand, this unit is essential for reading and saying large numbers in Japanese.

Example sentences

Sentence 1

A hundred thousand people came.

Sentence 2

It's around thirty thousand.

Sentence 3

There are tens of thousands of them.

Sentence 4

I heard something like, "Tens of thousands of people showed up."

Sentence 5

"Fifty thousand!?" I couldn't believe it.