Number 10,000 (Sosho)

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Ichiman is 10,000. Hyakuman is 1,000,000. In English, units of 3 digits go like thousand, million, billion and so on. In Japanese, big numbers increment by 4 digits and they goes like man, oku, chō, etc. The distance between numbers next to each other is 4 digits.

Here are lists of these numbers.

In English

• one thousand … 1,000
• one million … 1,000^2
• one billion … 1,000^3

In Japanese

• ichi man … 10,000
• ichi oku … 10,000^2 = 100,000,000
• icchō …  10,000^3 = 1,000,000,000,000

Today’s character is written in a sōsho style.

Its kaisholooks like this. >>>

10,000 in kaisho by Nao