万The kanji for ten thousand is another with three strokes. In writing it marks the ten thousands place, e.g. 一万五千二百七十九 is 15,279. After that the placeholders are reused; for example 百万 is one million. Interestingly, the pedometer was invented in Japan around the time of the '64 Tokyo Olympics and called 万歩計, which literally meant 10,000 step meter. This led to the widespread use of 10,000 steps as a daily goal which most pedometers still default to today. on readings:
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